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Felix Culpa by Jeremy Gavron
Felix Culpa is extraordinary: a wild, beautiful book which patchworks tiny scraps of other novels to create something haunting, resonant and absolutely original.
Olivia Laing, Author of The Lonely City
Beguilingly intriguing … has a strange poetry.
The Mail on Sunday
One of our more innovative, quietly inventive and exciting novelists.
Ali Smith, TLS
Gavron's singular approach nudges his narrative towards the universal.
Stoddard Martin, Jewish Chronicle
[Gavron merges] detective story, mythic romance and medieval quest into a short, affecting parable for modern times … It would be easy to become overly aware of the novel's self-conscious form, but Gavron is too subtle and skillful for that.
Financial Times
Felix Culpa does succeed as a diverting experiment, thanks to Gavron’s talent for coaxing a subtle, individual rhythm out of his affectionate patchwork.
The Big Issue
The way the disparate voices reflect the narrator’s question of identity is just as poetic as the language itself, and creates an immersive representation of the narrator’s experience. This is one for those avid readers who like a challenge, and who can’t get enough of the literary giants of modern history, only this time in a new, repurposed format.
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Olivia Laing, Author of The Lonely City
Beguilingly intriguing … has a strange poetry.
The Mail on Sunday
One of our more innovative, quietly inventive and exciting novelists.
Ali Smith, TLS
Gavron's singular approach nudges his narrative towards the universal.
Stoddard Martin, Jewish Chronicle
[Gavron merges] detective story, mythic romance and medieval quest into a short, affecting parable for modern times … It would be easy to become overly aware of the novel's self-conscious form, but Gavron is too subtle and skillful for that.
Financial Times
Felix Culpa does succeed as a diverting experiment, thanks to Gavron’s talent for coaxing a subtle, individual rhythm out of his affectionate patchwork.
The Big Issue
The way the disparate voices reflect the narrator’s question of identity is just as poetic as the language itself, and creates an immersive representation of the narrator’s experience. This is one for those avid readers who like a challenge, and who can’t get enough of the literary giants of modern history, only this time in a new, repurposed format.
Readings