Keith Hopper

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Nicholas Clee |Damon Galgut |Keith Hopper |Houman Barekat

Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and similar questions may occur to readers of Adrian Duncan’s third novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth. The book opens in “this small city of I”, presumably not named as Innsbruck because Duncan has transferred there from Berlin a statue of the Romantic figures Achim and Bettina von Arnim.