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Echo's Fugue

Echo's Fugue

Matherly, Desirae

Paperback

Series: 21st Century Essays

Letters & EssaysFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0814255418
ISBN13: 9780814255414
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Sep 12 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Through a series of variations on the theme of love-unrequited, polyamorous, monogomous, scandalous, adulterous-Desirae Matherly's Echo's Fugue explores love in all its failures and delusions. Patterned on the unfinished The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach which has been a mystery for centuries, Echo's Fugue undertakes Bach's project in prose-the tantalizing numerical correspondences throughout, the repetition of a single theme, the unfinished final piece.

Matherly's essays appear as letters, indexes, narrative, or sentence diagrams, each defying the rules of the blank page. Song lyrics, obsession, Greek mythology, psychology, game theory, and human sexuality form a fragmented narrative about loss and unhealthy attachments. Mimicry of Bach's fugues leads the author to questions about love, sex, desire, the Bach or Stravinsky paradigm in game theory, and relationships considered taboo by mainstream standards.

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