{"product_id":"the-fish-of-agassiz-tarbus-cavarus-9798235613010","title":"The Fish of AgassiZ - Creative Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if Franz Kafka wandered through an Eastern European port city drunk on mint tea, industrial smoke, Orthodox mysticism, erotic obsession, and philosophical delirium?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Fish of AgassiZ\u003c\/em\u003e, Tarbus Cavarus assembles a fragmented literary universe populated by railway station prophets, melancholic workers, erotic saints, grotesque intellectuals, wandering madmen, failed revolutionaries, mystics, drunkards, and dreamers trapped somewhere between memory and hallucination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart prose poetry, part absurdist confession, part surrealist scripture, this collection rejects traditional storytelling in favour of feverish visions where locomotives breathe like ancient beasts, nuns become erotic myths, philosophy dissolves into vulgarity, and entire civilizations collapse beneath the glow of café lights and railway signals. The stories drift between industrial landscapes, Black Sea towns, decaying apartment blocks, brothels, churches, trolleybuses, slaughterhouses, abandoned factories, and metaphysical dreamscapes where nothing remains stable except desire itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by surrealism, Dadaism, grotesque satire, Eastern European absurdism, erotic folklore, and avant-garde literature, Cavarus writes with a voice that is simultaneously poetic, obscene, philosophical, violent, tender, and deeply human. Every page feels like a transmission from a collapsing world where beauty and degeneration walk hand in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this literary labyrinth you will encounter: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ephilosophical madmen preaching apocalypse, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eerotic manifestos disguised as love letters, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eabsurd religious ceremonies, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehaunted industrial landscapes, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enostalgic visions of post-communist decay, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egrotesque humour, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esurreal romance, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand fragmented meditations on identity, entropy, memory, sensuality, faith, violence, and freedom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fish of AgassiZ\u003c\/em\u003e is not merely read - it is inhaled like cigarette smoke in a midnight railway station while distant loudspeakers announce the collapse of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of experimental fiction, surrealist literature, absurdist prose, dark satire, grotesque eroticism, and avant-garde storytelling in the tradition of Bruno Schulz, Samuel Beckett, André Breton, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarbus Cavarus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235613010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experimental Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Tarbus Cavarus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665632596223,"sku":"9798235613010","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fish-of-agassiz-tarbus-cavarus-9798235613010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}