Publisher's Synopsis
"As in the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Levy's essays fold fact and fiction into a seamless congruence. Although the backgrounds are meticulously researched, Spinoza never spent eleven months in Brazil, Rolling Stone never interviewed Rimbaud, and Abd al Rahman III never rose from the dead to describe the happiest fourteen days of his life. These thirteen essays, unique in their approach to literature, also explore Chamfort's aphorisms, Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize lecture, the Hebrew poet Todros Abulafia and his pal Poet B, and an obscure T'ang era cult. called Ardentism." -- Page 4 of cover.
