Volume 49, Number 8 · May 9, 2002
Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik?
By Gabriele Annan
The Horned Man
by James Lasdun
Norton, 193 pp., $24.95
James Lasdun's short thriller is dark and dense with exotic ingredients. It is threatening, surreal, and barefacedly Kafkaesque, centering on the performance of a play adapted from Kafka's short story 'Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor'—the one in which the eponymous hero is pursued by two mysterious ping-pong balls with lives of their own. The adapter is a Bulgarian academic called Trumilcik: he has recently stormed out after being accused of molesting his female students at Arthur Clay College, a dim-sounding school in the 'uninterrupted sprawl running west and north from New York.'
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