A Metaphysical Mountain in “Ascension” – Chicago Review of Books

A Metaphysical Mountain in “Ascension” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Nicholas Binge’s Ascension, a mountain of nearly unimaginable size appears suddenly in the middle of the ocean, its sides plunging steeply into the sea, its mysterious peak looming unattainably in the clouds, nearly 10,000 feet higher than Mount Everest. The mountain stuns physicist Harold Tunmore, not just because of its sudden materialization, but … Read more

Belonging and metaphysical horror in “That Time of Year” – Chicago Review of Books

Belonging and metaphysical horror in “That Time of Year” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s hard to sum up Marie NDiaye’s That Time of Year (Un temps de saison, translated from French by Jordan Stump), a short novel that unfolds with a dreamlike logic. Every year Herman, a math teacher from Paris, spends the month of August with his wife Rose and their son in a small country … Read more