Inside the World: As Al Lehman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781944697587)

Fiction. 2018 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Literary Adult Fiction. Al Lehman is a bourgeois Everyman, whose true nature is mysterious, radically unformed, incomplete, and frustrated, even as the quotidian circumstances of his life are drearily grounded in a fixed temporal reality. In this episodic novel, comic and philosophical, written in the late 70s in Cohen's highly idiosyncratic and extraordinarily poetic language, different aspects of Lehman's quest to exist in the scope of finitude, in the belly of a universe that does not fully nourish him, but is the source of all nourishment, are brilliantly distilled.

INSIDE THE WORLD: AS AL LEHMAN is a companion novel to WOMEN, AND TOM GERVASI, whose central figure could be Lehman's wish-fulfilling dream projection: a Don Juan who exists in a world of limitless physical and emotional gratification. Taken together, the two novels comprise a kind of comedic Either/Or in which are explored a wide range of the merits and dismerits of the real and ideal.

Author: Marvin Cohen
ISBN-10: 1944697586
ISBN-13: 9781944697587
Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/25/2018