Bottom's Dream Fiction and it takes an English-speaking

and it takes an English-speaking Russian expat with a strong antipathy for the city and its inhabitants to solve the mystery

but with that abstract and elusive concept

to the story of a man stalked through the streets by a stranger for no greater a crime than making eye contact

it goes on to reveal how our own poetry's fascination with complex surfaces and imagined social transformation has deep and under-recognized ties to Victorian concepts

ISBN: 9781628971149

Bottom's Dream Fiction and it takes an English-speakingI have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidts rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or