The Combinations - Louis Armand
IS THIS THE ULTIMATE “PRAGUE NOVEL”?Shortlisted for the 2016 Not the Booker prize.The “European anti-novel” in all its unrepentant glory is here in The Combinations, following in the tradition of…
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IS THIS THE ULTIMATE “PRAGUE NOVEL”?Shortlisted for the 2016 Not the Booker prize.The “European anti-novel” in all its unrepentant glory is here in The Combinations, following in the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Joyce, Perec. Kafka’s The Trial meets Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities.In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is an unprecedented “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