Meditations On Love & Catastrophe at the Liars' Cafe - by Christopher Bernard (Paperback)
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<p>. . . a hallucinatory love story that takes place in a twilight world of memories, where an "attempt to peel off the scab merely reopened the wound," continuing the author's work in the hallucinatory and elegiac--and always lyrical--vein of his earlier books. In this novel, which puts one in mind of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em> as much as William Burroughs' <em>Naked Lunch, </em>emotional contours are captured in prose that moves and glints like mercury, "lunatic and afraid of nothing." --Ernest Hilbert</p><p> </p><p>The manuscript cover of Bernard's relatively short novel <em>Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars' Cafe </em>says it took almost five years to write, and any reader can understand why: its intellectual reach, the lapidary nature of its images and observations, the density of the writing are phenomenal. And yet such are Bernard's skills and literary exuberance that I was carried along on this avalanche, this onrush of ideas and images, and induced to read at a speed almost too fast to savor them. . . . I'm a fan of Bernard and have liked everything of his I've read, but I wasn't prepared for this. It's as though Bernard the intellect, Bernard the novelist and Bernard the poet had joined forces to produce one all-in-one, explosive synthesis. I kept wanting to underline favorite phrases and images, all the while wondering whether he could sustain this density, this inspired panoply of images. Indeed he could. His novel <em>A Spy in the Ruins</em> may one day earn the wider readership it deserves, but this book may accomplish that end first. It's probably considered "difficult" on the literary scale, but so is most of Nabokov, Shakespeare, or for that matter, <em>Moby-Dick.</em> --Curt Barnes</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>. . . nudges the reader into new possibilities of thought and feeling . . . a brilliant book . . . </em></strong><strong>-- Jack Foley</strong></p><p><strong><em>. . . steroidal postmodern and full of surprises . . .</em> -- Kristyan Panzica</strong></p>
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