short chapters in a number of styles
" —Stig Sæterbakken
known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East
looking up at the night sky
Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction
The Key / An Eochair Literary short chapters in a numberIn An Eochair (The Key), one of Mirtn Cadhains most Kafkaesque novella, J., a paper keeper, accidentally locks himself in his office when his key breaks in the lock. The novellaa mixture of satire, farce, black comedy, and, ultimately, tragedyrelates the efforts of J. and various other characters, including his wife, civil service colleagues, and superiors, as they try to extricate J. from his predicament. Yet all efforts to free J. must be in