The Dance of a Sham Flanders By Róbert Gál

By Róbert Gál

Leduc's brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art

in a string of declarative sentences

populated by shape-shifting characters

a girl-warrior from Somalia

The Dance of a Sham Flanders By Róbert GálThe narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that he is no more than a sham, a performer. Yet the reader in turn comes to doubt the narrator's own