Róbert Gál
Róbert Gál is a writer and editor based in Prague. He is the author of several books of aphorisms, fiction, and philosophical fragments, including Naked Thoughts (Black Sun Lit, 2019), Agnomia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), On Wing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), and Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003).
Works
Agnomia
In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál―whom Joshua Cohen has called “a phenomenon”―conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, Agnomia takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer’s mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Agnomia is a book to relish.
Naked Thoughts
On Wing
Vestiges
Zwischenbrücken
DM ~ Goulash, Kindle Edition
Nahé myšlienky
The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1
Uzly (Knots)
Arcana by Henry Hills (in: John Zorn’s Treatment for a Film in Fifteen Scenes)
Best European Fiction 2012
The Return of Kral Majales, An Anthology
Absinthe: New European Writing, No. 14
New European Poets
Signs & Symptoms (UK Edition)
Manipulzácie
Signs & Symptoms (US Edition)
Epigraffiti
Nihil sub sole novum
Násilí (On Violence)
Press and Media Mentions
Website
Location
Prague
Category
Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Humor, Essays