Absurdist Fiction Jacques Sternberg’s The Employee and the Bureaucratic Nightmare of Modern Life A man stands outside an office door. He is five minutes late. That should not be enough to open …
Dream Noir Marcel Béalu and The Impersonal Adventure of the Night Mind Some books do not begin with a crime. They begin with a displacement. A man arrives somewhere. A…
Belgian literature Jean Ray’s The City of Unspeakable Fear and the Comic Terror of European Weird Noir Jean Ray’s The City of Unspeakable Some towns are too quiet to be trusted. They sit under a gra…
