Bøger af Victor Asaro

Ideas, poetic sketches, stories, instructions, lists, outlines, notes all tending to an act of Theater. And while they ever arrive, the leaning-into is detailed thoroughly as an urge toward something just beyond statement: a presence, an appearance, an act.

822 fragments garnered from notebooks, journals, loose papers, files, blank envelopes, paper bags and napkins written over a period of 25 years. These draft materials document the preparations for a Work never realized and yet never abandoned. Organized, arranged and recovered in this volume, draft fragments achieves an inadvertent coherence as it traverses the expressionistic collapse of language, narrative and time.

These novels end up being what they aren't: completed. Written throughout the early 1980's, this assemblage of drafts bespeaks both a vocation tentatively asserted and a literature tentatively denied. Ranging from simple meditations on language, loss and love, to stringent experiments in form and structure, from the bluntly hallucinogenic to the gently speculative romance of ideas, the drafted works here also tell the story of the struggle between writing and art, of books that never quite happened becoming one that does.