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Apr 22nd, 2021, 6:42 pm
2 books by Alan Singer
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Overview: Alan Singer works in the fields of literary aesthetics and literary theory. He writes on aesthetic issues in literature and in the visual arts. He has published six critical books, most recently Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, 2018). Professor Singer is the author of many scholarly articles in journals such as SubStance, Novel, Cultural Critique, Culture, Theory and Critique, boundary 2 and Symploke.

Professor Singer is also a member of the MFA faculty in fiction. He is the author of five novels, most recently, The Inquisitor's Tongue. He has just completed Play, a Novel. Professor Singer is the director of the Temple Seminars in Aesthetics and Cultural Theory, convening for a month each June at Temple University's campus in Rome, Italy.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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The Charnel Imp
"I am a ventriloquist for love' declares the narrator of The Charnel Imp, daring the reader to locate his voice in all the familiar places of human affection. Yet the narrative of Alan Singer's innovative novel is a vast remapping of that terrain.
A desiccated prairie town, whose landmarks are a slaughterhouse of phantasmagoric proportions and a burlesque opera house, is the scene of this metamorphosis. Out of the din of destruction, the narrator precipitates a dubious array of voices: Moertle, who leads the cattle to slaughter; the local doctor, whose preoccupation with disease and contamination becomes a demonic prophecy; Dinah, the opera-star-cum-burlesque-artist, who performs a mimicry of domestic love both on and off the stage; and, most ominously, the wooden ventriloquist's dummy, which threatens to swallow them all into the mysterious depths of its own darkly-inflected speech.

Each of their stories converges upon an obsessive, authoritarian demand for the gratification of memory and desire. In action hallucinated against a backdrop of the seething corrals and brutal slaughterhouse, in a series of surreal episodes climaxing in flood, famine and fire, the narrative is propelled toward a reckoning with paradox and loss. In the ruthless momentum of its plot, the novel portends the characters' apocalyptic encounter with the limits of human will. In the ambiguity of its poetically-charged language, the complex architecture of its form, and the resonance of its plot, The Charnel Imp rings with a portent for the reader as well. It is an intricate paradox, posing the question of what the novel can tell us, in the guise of its telling. Like the French recit to which it pays homage, The Charnel Imp exposes the infinite frailty of the mind that seeks to encompass its own knowing.

The Inquisitor's Tongue: A Novel
Alan Singer’s riveting new novel, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, reimagines the Spanish Inquisition as a world in which spiritual horrors and acts of violence are the birth pangs of otherwise unimaginable identities.

The novel is the intersection of two narratives. The confession of Osvaldo Alonzo de Zamora, a miraculously gifted converso wine taster, is read aloud by a duplicitous priest of the Inquisition as an admonitory lesson to a suspected sinner. The competing narrative is the story of that sinner, another guilt-driven character, referred to only as the “Samaritan,” who curiously is held in the thrall of Osvaldo’s confession. The Samaritan bears the scars of his own history of violence and hidden identity.

In the wake of a final apocalypse the two narratives converge, bringing all of the characters together and eliciting the most damning revelation about the identity of the Inquisitor. Set amidst the religious and courtly spectacles of sixteenth-century Spain, The Inquisitor’s Tongue is linguistically adventurous, richly philosophical, deeply visceral, tantalizingly sensuous, and wickedly comic. It is a Goyaesque capricho on the follies of the will to identity.

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