Mahu, Or, the Material Belgian Literature or whether new truths might

or whether new truths might take their place and what might they be

and is now director of Argentina’s first creative writing program

“A pleasingly eerie study in amnesiac derangement

Major is a linguist and translator

Mahu, Or, the Material Belgian Literature or whether new truths mightby Robert Pinget Translated by Alan Sheridan Smith Publication Date: 02 01 2005 ISBN: 9781564783776 In the tradition of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds, Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Raymond Queneau's The Flight of Icarus, Robert Pinget's Mahu or The Material tells the story of Mahu, a lazy man who may be a character in his friend Latirail's failing novel, which is taken over by characters invented by Sinture, yet another writer. The