Bøker av Harry Mathews

A wild goose chase through a remarkably unusual world, The Conversions invites both reader and protagonist to participate in a quest for answers to an elusive game.

For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal¿s dictum for writers of ¿twenty lines a day, genius or not.¿ What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer¿s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews¿s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.

"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic