ABSTRACT
Fardoulis-Lagrange is considered an abstruse writer, a reputation based on his unique stylistic blend of oracular concision, odd narrative stances, and vertiginous abstractions manipulated as if they were concrete objects. "Everything happens because of distant causes", explains the nous-narrator, representing the adults. "The eagle spreads its wings above a land without witnesses and we find ourselves influenced by the flappings of space and by the solemnity of a ritual". Present time likewise encompasses a splendorous "amalgam of having been and having to be". Such are the emblems of Being which Fardoulis-Lagrange forges: every spatio-temporal setting in this novella is impregnated by other spaces and times—near and far, past, present, and future. For Fardoulis-Lagrange, writing is no game, pastime or end in itself. Rather, it is an intrepid, mapless departure, a paradoxical endeavor to surpass, transgress or transcend the confines of subjectivity. Fardoulis-Lagrange's abstractions possess a paradoxical density, a surprising materiality.
