The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee: His Researches

by Matthew Stadler

Book Overview

Michael Upchurch called The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee "a work of great charm, playful paranoia, and exquisite obsession." It is now available from Grove Press in its definitive, revised edition with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684193523
• ISBN13: 9780684193526
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Ideal if you love the ACT of reading

Matthew Stadler is a reader, and his novels are a joy to immerse oneself in for this reason. I disagree with the assessment that The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee book is plodding, difficult or even "experimental." Why would I want to read a book that is structured, plotted, and populated so sterertypically that I won't even need to pay attention to it while I'm reading it? I don't read to carve chunks of time out of my own life. I read because stumbling across writers like Matthew Stadler is a thrill that can't be duplicated by any other activity. To see my own unorganized musings perfectly crystalized on the page is fantastic. I'm far too lazy to be a writer, so I'm very grateful to Stadler for doing the work for us all. His own words, in discussing Proust, aptly sum up my feelings about what makes The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee ideal reading:But what if reading involves a dissipation into languor and ease, rather than any kind of mounted effort toward victory? What if the book is our final and only destination, a place we live in rather than "get through"?