By Jared Marcel Pollen
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After a series of unpublished books, a novelist becomes obsessed with the idea of uploading his consciousness into a cloud and asks a former student to document his efforts (“Encomium of Glass”). A brilliant but melancholy young architect travels to Ukraine with a colleague after the fall of the iron curtain and finds himself in a graveyard of Soviet monuments (“Suedehead”). And after being released from an Egyptian prison, a deprogrammed Islamist has a strange encounter one night at the MoMA (“The Lovers”). These are just a few of the pieces that make up The Unified Field of Loneliness. From Paris, to New York, to Vienna, to London, these ten stories locate characters living in a condition of terror, solipsism and displacement in the technological age.
Jared Marcel Pollen lives in Prague. He was born in Canada, studied politics and literature at the University of Windsor and received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in NY. Venus&Document (2022) is his debut novel. His book of short stories The Unified Field of Loneliness, published by Crowsnest Books (2019), collects ten stories which take place from Paris to New York to Vienna to London and locates characters living in a condition of terror, solipsism, and displacement in the technological age. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Quillette, Tablet, 3:AM Magazine and Liberties.
