On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) [Paperback]

Tara Selters epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly A total explosion; Solvej Balle has blown through to a new dimension of literary exploration. What the best novels can do is open up spaces. And she has opened a space in time, and it is absolutely, absolutely incredible. I think its a fantastic book. A crazy, philosophical and addictive novel. A superb reflection on solitude, individual responsibility, existential fatigue, the fear of those we love leaving us. It is a study of the setbacks, the shifts, the illusions that we weave against the flow of time. An ambitious septology& Solvej Balles completely distinctive phenomenological poetry vibrates even more intensely. Her keen eye for the worlds smallest, tiniest details? becomes increasingly a form of attentiveness. There is little doubt that Solvej Balle is in this volume preparing a masterpiece  her magnum opus itself. Existential questions about the core and functioning of human relationships are raised here in a virtuosic and seemingly incidental manner. A steady,?careful, and deeply disquieting estrangement of a single?day, it is impossible to put down. a hypnotic feat of prose writing, and the first in a septology,?Book II?(which moves beyond Selters repeated Nov. 18), is simultaneously published, so you neednt wait for the next translation to see where the series goes next. Havelands translation captures the twitchy urge to both keep moving and seek the comforts of home. A speculative, lyrical study of our sensory self. ? What is a day? It is a cell of time that can be subdivided into smaller units: 24 hours; 1,440 minutes; 86,400 seconds. It is a human fiction, a means of imposing order on an unfathomable duration called life. It is an embodied experience that can feel long or short, interesting or boring, each a unique confluence of meteorological, physiological, and sociological variables. Billions of us go through one at a time. Afterward, we expect tl£A