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Omega Minor
Paul Verhaeghen

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Eric Anderson, January 21, 2008

Fans of the supermassive black hole known as the postmodern novel could easily overlook this quiet debut by a Flemish author, recently published in English in a paperback edition by a non-profit press. That would be a shame, because it stands right alongside the best practitioners of the genre for its layered allusions, dystopian themes, fractured history, and unfettered wordplay. It yokes together a Holocaust survivor memoir, the fragmented psyche of post-reunification Germany, Wagnerian totalities, mathematical singularities, and behavioral science, just for starters. But Verhaeghen also has a symphonic way with prose (he did his own translation), begging comparisons with Wagner’s own masterful ability to combine lyricism, storytelling, and myth into a total experience.

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