Tigor

by Peter Stephan Jungk

"Tigor is an adventure novel, the minute details of which read real to the extremeothey appear as though they had been seen, touched, smelled, and tasted by the author himself. The reading offers a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590511182
• ISBN13: 9781590511183
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Novel for Seekers

This is the kind of novel that leaves you with a full feeling, the feeling that you don't want to read another for a while because you will be still thinking about this one, still living through the experience it has been to read it. An experience of the life of a mathematical genius of the Euclidean variety whose world crumbles when his theories about order in the universe (as shown in the snowflake constant) are shattered by a new theory of chaos. Tigor gives up his academic career and embarks on a mystical quest that is at the same time a quest for the home he never had. It ends on Mt. Ararat in a search for Noah's ark. Along the way Tigor works in a theater in Paris and teaches school in Armenia. Jungk's novel is influenced by Franz Werfel (of whom he wrote a great biography) and Beckett, but he writes in a style all his own. It's not always easy to read because life is not always easily lived, but it is a beautiful full book.