Michiel Stroink, a Dutchman, wrote his absurdist novel about the artist Benjamin and reality crumbling in 2011 at the age of 30.
Michiel Stroink, a Dutchman, wrote his absurdist novel about the artist Benjamin and reality crumbling in 2011 at the age of 30. Benjamin, once waking up in a psychiatric hospital, painfully long collects fragments of the past into a whole picture, and as soon as he finishes this painstaking work, the collected world crumbles again. Stroink is concise, aphoristic, and to the point: to liken group therapy to «Jenga» is boldly conceived and convincingly executed. A rare opportunity to read a piece of brilliant modern young European literature in time.
Translation from Dutch by Ekaterina Asoyan.
Text, 352 p.