A fantastic evocation of life and learning in a dream sequence: Jerome, who has to sit an exam and suffers from toothache, enters a nighmarish library in which everything conspires to frustrate his desperate attempts to revise. Cavazzoni creates an entire world in this dream, whose absurd perhaps comments on the more muted absurdity of reality. The library contains geological and natural realities that plague the organic matter of which the books are made, demonstrating or at least suggesting the futility of human learning. In some parts of the building the books have turned into peat. Cavazzoni admits that his books pushe the novel to its very limits - "like outpourings of the maniacal," he says. "That's how they come to me, you must understand."
- ISBN10 132238567X
- ISBN13 9781322385679
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 21 June 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vagabond Voices
- Format eBook
- Language English