The Combinations Read Online By Louis Armand
| Title | : | The Combinations |
| Author | : | Louis Armand |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 888 pages |
| ISBN | : | 9780957121 |
In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction that combines the beauty intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility chaos that is Prague a.k.a Golem City , across the 20th century and before after Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D s e.g John and K s e In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction that combines the beauty intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility chaos that is Prague a.k.a Golem City , across the 20th century and before after Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D s e.g John and K s e.g Edward of the 16th 17th centuries who attempted and failed to turn lead into gold , and the infamous H s e.g Adolf, e.g Reinhard of the 20th who attempted and succeeded in turning flesh into soap Armand s prose weaves together the City s thousand and one fascinating tales with a deeply personal account of one lost soul set adrift amid the early 90s awakening from the nightmare that was the previous half century of communist Mitteleuropa The Combinations is a text whose 1 erudition dazzles, 2 structure humbles, 3 monotony never bores, 4 humour disarms, 5 relentlessness overwhelms, 6 storytelling captivates, 7 poignancy remains poignant, and 8 style simply never exhausts itself Your move, Reader Kafka s The Trial meets Robert Musil s The Man Without Qualities
about Author
Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994 He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka s Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despai Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994 He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka s Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil Richard Marshall, 3 AM , CAIRO Equus Press, 2014 short listed for the Guardian s Not the Booker Prize , and THE COMBINATIONS Equus Press, 2016 Described as Robert Pinget does Canetti in drag in Yugoslavia , Armand s third novel Clair Obscur was published by Equus in 2011 His previous novel, Menudo Antigen , was hailed as unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead inspiring Thor Garcia, author of The News Clown 
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In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction that combines the beauty intellectual exert
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