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The Blind Accordionist

by C. D. Rose
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A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly."
In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character "C.D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer named Maxim Guyavitch. That search was fruitless, but in THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST, "C.D. Rose" has found the manuscript—nine sparkling, fable-like short stories—and he presents them here with an (hilarious) introduction explaining the discovery, and an afterword providing (hilarious) critical commentary on the stories, and what they might reveal about the mysterious Guyavitch.
THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST is another masterful book of world-making by the real C.D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about "C.D. Rose," although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. (The first in the series was THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LITERARY FAILURE, containing portraits of dunsuccessful writers; the second was WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, in which the author of the DICTIONARY, "C.D. Rose," searches for the manuscript of his favorite dead writer, Maxim Guyavitch, while on a book tour for the DICTIONARY.)
Like those books, THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy—or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.

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    June 15, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781612199184

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      • ISBN: 9781612199184
      • File size: 606 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      June 1, 2021
      In Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else (2018), a character named "C. D. Rose" failed to find the manuscript of the unplaceable, undefinable, and unlocatable writer Maxim Guyavitch. Here, he has "found" the missing stories, nine mock gothic tales full of opaque symbolism and pseudo-profundity. Rose rises to the challenge of artfully creating bad prose and imagery, including the recurrent image that gives the volume its name. The stories are fable-like, featuring a convoluted card game no one knows the rules of, a man who thinks he is a bear, and a tale from the perspective of a self-appointed warder of an art gallery. Rose's tone is consistently playful, and these stories are like jaunts by Chuck Klosterman or Italo Calvino, posing questions of narration, authorship, and originality. Rose really shines in the introduction, the notes on the translation, the afterword, and the wonderful suggestions for further reading, where he provides lengthy and hilarious notes on the criticism of Guyavitch's work. This wonderfully strange text adds further intrigue and complications to the fascinating world Rose has built in his fiction.

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