The Case of Thomas N.

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THE GASE OF TMO?lAS N Thomas N took his seatot ni ne o'ciock on Mondoy morning knowing no better than anyone eise in court if he had committed the crime for which he was being puton trial. He appeared to have come from nowhere, to have no friends, no name, no sense of his own identity. There was no personal pronoun in his univefée. His doctor suggested that he didn't know who he was because hefeared anything that objectively demonstrates his existence'. So when he wakes up one morning nextto a dead glrl, he naturally attempts to cover up all trace of his presence. But he finds himself in the dock for murder, in a court where identity itself is on trial: Thomas's, the murderer's, and that of the enigmatic figure in the shadows. vAclever, ambitious növel from an excellent writer whose previousworkof fiction, In the Labyrinth, established his vision of a Kafkaesque world of uncertainty' The Times The book isformal and detached, ma rkedly different from run-of-the-mill fictional... Tovább

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THE GASE OF TMO?lAS N Thomas N took his seatot ni ne o'ciock on Mondoy morning knowing no better than anyone eise in court if he had committed the crime for which he was being puton trial. He appeared to have come from nowhere, to have no friends, no name, no sense of his own identity. There was no personal pronoun in his univefée. His doctor suggested that he didn't know who he was because hefeared anything that objectively demonstrates his existence'. So when he wakes up one morning nextto a dead glrl, he naturally attempts to cover up all trace of his presence. But he finds himself in the dock for murder, in a court where identity itself is on trial: Thomas's, the murderer's, and that of the enigmatic figure in the shadows. vAclever, ambitious növel from an excellent writer whose previousworkof fiction, In the Labyrinth, established his vision of a Kafkaesque world of uncertainty' The Times The book isformal and detached, ma rkedly different from run-of-the-mill fictional outpourings, and a reminder of the European origins of the psychological növel. It is an achievement worthy of considerable respect' Anita Brookner, Spectator To referto it as a thriller-as-philosophicai-enquiry would convey, roughly, the mix of intellectual and narrative excitement it contains. But it would not do justicetothe precision of Morley's prose, orthe playful rigourof his ideas, or the teasing suggestiveness of his method' Independent Alsó by John Dávid Morley in Abacus: IN THE LABYRINTH fABACUSj Vissza