“It so impressive, you just sit there with your mouth open . . .” — Poul Borum, Kvällsposten

“Fioretos moves freely and knowingly between film and opera, image and word, modern philosophy and criminology. In addition, he has the good taste to stage his ruminations as a sort of reconnoitering through the world of phantoms, with a series of narrative techniques borrowed from the world of detective fiction. One discovery leads to the next, the traces converge and diverge, the narrator approaches the solution to the riddle through a series of insights.” — Anders Cullhed, Dagens Nyheter

“Aris Fioretos is, undoubtedly, one of Sweden’s most talented writers, and his trio of books definitively belongs to the most daringly experimential writing that has been published in recent years.” — Johan Dahlbäck, Göteborgs-Posten

“Aris Fioretos’ books have great attraction on me . . . [A Book about Phantoms] is an invisible celebration of the magical ability of writing to create life and meaning beyond its own control — but at the same time, it also mourns the inability of the alphabet to gather what is gray in our existence, the phantomatic, that which will always remain unclarified.” — Stefan Eklund, Borås Tidning

“. . . a relaxed, associative essay, characterized by mostly sublimely nuanced explications. Intellectual rigor is combined with an equally inspiring poetic attentiveness. . . . Exquisitely, [Fioretos] balances between abstract arguments and suggestive metaphors.” — Björn Gustavsson, Bohusläningen med Dals Dagblad

“There is no question that Aris Fioretos is a skilled critic and exquisite interpreter. More remarkable is that he also has such subtle command of poetry. The sudden images and metaphors which structure the text are both poignant and daringly original. . . . A Book about Phantoms mixes high and low, and it is precisely in this mixture of voices that it is at its most effective. Sophie Tottie’s pictorial material appears as examples, too, celebrating the fragment. Photos, newspaper excerpts, and drawings relate subtly to the text, turning the book into a spectral but, at the same time, coherent whole.” — Per-Gunnar Kramer, Göteborgstidningen

“. . . Aris Fioretos, the incomparable. . . . [His book] contains transitions and turns of thought of absolutely dizzying kind — both thematically and intellectually, verbally and poetically.” — Nina Lekander, Expressen

“A Book about Phantoms is the third volume in a trio which began with The Book of Imparting and continued with The Gray Book. Originally marked by privacy and mourning, the trio is now completed with a text characterized by lightness and almost merry openness, without precision ever being lost in the process. Here, Fioretos’s language is more constructive than ever . . .” — Kristina Lundblad, Sundsvalls Tidning

“What do we have here? Some hardboiled hermeneutician or a deadpan deconstructivist?” — Karl Steineck, Helsingborgs Dagblad

“Abstract arguments are followed by the most profane and exquisite similes . . .” — Jonas Thente, Sydsvenska Dagladet