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Mathias B Freese
In the Throes explores the awakening of intelligence and the coming into awareness of an evolutionary mishap on a forbidding apocalyptic planet.
The story follows eponymic Gruff, the first linguistic/metaphysical…
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The i Tetralogy–i, I Am Gunther, Gunther’s Lament, Gunther Redux–is the gut-wrenching epic depiction of the dehumanization of man through an incisive observation of three pivotal characters. Each of them…
Freese says that ‘memory must metabolize [the Holocaust] endlessly, ’ and his book certainly turns hell into harsh nourishment: keeps us alert, sharpens our nerves and outrage, forbids complacent sleep…
Down to a Sunless Sea plunges the reader into uncomfortable situations and into the minds of troubled characters. Each selection is a different reading experience-poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wryly humorous, and…
Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers stands above much of the crowd in its commitment to ask, ‘What is it to remember?’ Mathias B. Freese, tenderly plaiting a web that…
Mathias Freese wants his retreat from the societal it to be a brave safari for the self rather than cowardly avoidance, so who better to guide him but Henry David…
Near the end of Nabokov’s Lolita, Humbert makes an honest admission: [A]nd it struck me…that I simply did not know a thing about my darling’s mind. That line sums up…
Having once been a psychotherapist who’s never hesitated to turn the therapeutical gun barrel toward himself, Mathias B. Freese ramps up his radical reflexivity in this latest work, from confessional…
