
“This is an exquisite little book about the art of disappearance.
. . . His style is singular, at times so precise in its use of
metaphors that cold chills are sent down my Swedish spine. It
goes straight to the central nerve system!” —
Märit Aronsson, Upsala Nya Tidning
“Fioretos’ texts recall Samuel Beckett’s monological
dramas, but are considerably more lighthearted and elegant . .
. The language has luster and seems newly polished; words and
sentences are in good balance, the spirits high . . . There is
song inside my head.” — Lars-Olof
Franzén, Dagens Nyheter
“Here is pragmatism, beauty, and clandestine sensitivity,
even a sort of black humor as a consequence of the elegantly teasing
tone and the absurd situations that are gradually being uncovered.”
— Thomas Götselius, Göteborgstidningen
“Fioretos is an extremely conscious writer, whose control
over his means of expression is precisely so dictatorial and solemn
as is necessary for great comedy to arise. Like Buster Keaton
among collapsing houses, Fioretos strolls around in that apocalyptic
pandemonium we call the moment of death while carrying a neutral
expression on his face, which of course becomes all the more comic
the higher the drama of the physical situation.” —
Ragnar Strömberg, Bonniers Litterära Magasin
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