Michael Lentz

An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious "psychogeography of the self" that both disrupts and elevates the 21st-century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading—Schattenfroh—directed by none other than the narrator's mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations of Renaissance art, the German Reformation,...