All The Errors

​Voyage is at the heart of all narrative, and in the seven thoroughly original tales comprising this book the voyages are heightened into a condition of metaphysical urgency. One story is the valedictory address of a soul about to be born. Another tale tells of a labyrinth that seeks to describe its own pathways. Forming another, two monologues are interlaced, tracing the disavowals of love between a man and a woman. The principal characters of another story are Fires, Essences, Lights, Places, Edified Beasts, Centers, Thrones, Thunders, and Rings—and this cosmology of abstractions is brought into an almost palpable presence. In still another fable the narrator journeys on foot with an unknown itinerary, propelled through an unchanging landscape awash with deja vu. Far more than the sum of its parts, this challenging work was also Giorgio Manganelli's long-awaited English language debut. These are tales of solitude, yet touched with hope, and they share an allegiance to the themes of Sartre, Camus, Kafka, and Calvino. Translated from the Italian by Henry Martin.

"All the Errors offers massive doses of that ineffable effect known as 'the pleasure of reading,' and the reader must be prepared to hold up his own end of the bargain, since the pleasure of reading is not to be separated from a certain measure of annoyance, disquietude, and even fear." — Corriere della Sera

"[Manganelli's] material is fragments of our consciousness and experience; he writes probing analyses of states of mind and relationships in showy, artful language." — Library Journal

"As in Beckett, there's also something a bit monstrous in Manganelli's meticulously dispassionate gaze. All the Errors is remarkable for the cold glint of Manganelli's eloquence and the surrealistic precision of his imagination." — New York Press