![]() ![]() ![]() From 1979 to 2016, he edited and published Rampike, an international journal of art, writing and theory. Karl Jirgens Karl Jirgens is the author of several books, including the short story collections Strappado (Coach House Press, 1985) and A Measure of Time (Mercury Press, 1995), as well as the editor of a number of works of literary criticism. Drawing on literature and pop culture (from Cinderella and Hamlet to Vladimir Mayakovsky and Anthony Bourdain) as well as the history of twentieth-century genocides (including the Holocaust and the Gulag), these complex, magic realist stories suggest that what seems separate is really interconnected, that the distinction between past, present and future is illusion, and that we might all die of the truth if the truth were truly known. Ordinary daily activities and events lead to unexpected slides into lucid dreams and flirtations with the edge of madness. In The Razor’s Edge, Karl Jirgens presents a collection of interlinked fictions that inhabit halfway worlds between past and present, dream and actuality, science and divination. What remains is incompletion, interruption. ![]() Questions lie when reconstructing incomplete facts, half-truths, enigmas. ‘Unwillingly, I’ve become part of the story. A collection of linked short stories that hopscotches between time and space to explore the haunting hunger that reaches beyond the physical and into the spiritual-for love, for understanding and for truth. ![]()
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