Stuart Evers

Doppelgangers galore: The Novices of Lerna, by Angel Bonomini, reviewed

A graduate from Argentina, offered a six-month fellowship in Switzerland, is appalled to meet – and have to live with - 24 versions of himself

Angel Bonomini. 
issue 09 November 2024
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  • The Novices of Lerna

    Angel Bonomini, translated by Jordan Landsman

    Peninsula Press, pp. 112, £10

Resurrection has become its own literary genre. Though hardly a new phenomenon (Moby-Dick, for example, was out of print at the time of Herman Melville’s death), the success of such ‘forgotten’ classics as Suite Française, Stoner and Alone in Berlin proved that an author’s death and/or obscurity were no barrier for readers.

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