"Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished 'Long Observation of the Ray,' of which only six manuscript pages exist, [the author] interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes. This rhythm of themes and genres-- involving personal memoir, literary criticism, Beckett studies, contemporary political reportage and accounts of state-sponsored torture in appropriated texts, plus an Arabian Tale and even a baseball play-by-play --produce a work at once sculptural, ...
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"Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished 'Long Observation of the Ray,' of which only six manuscript pages exist, [the author] interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes. This rhythm of themes and genres-- involving personal memoir, literary criticism, Beckett studies, contemporary political reportage and accounts of state-sponsored torture in appropriated texts, plus an Arabian Tale and even a baseball play-by-play --produce a work at once sculptural, theatrical, mathematical and above all lyrical, a new form of narrative answering to a freshened rule set"
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