Landscape with Dog at the Quarterly Conversation
A wonderful review of Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by George Fragopoulos at the Quarterly Conversation.
I think this is the best part of being a publisher: reading these responses, magically getting to see works one had thought one knew inside out anew.
Reading Ersi Sotiropoulos’s collection of short stories, Landscape With Dog, brings to mind the Surrealist masterpiece by Giorgio de Chirico, “Melancholy and Mystery of a Street.” Much like Chirico’s painting, most of Sotiropoulos’s stories are textual cul-de-sacs, seemingly expansive but surprisingly claustrophobic, tinged with dark corners, a series of streets that lead nowhere, leaving readers to puzzle over wonderfully unrealized moments and conclusions. There are no easily recognizable beginnings, middles, or ends in these stories.
Read in full here.
Tags: Ersi Sotiropoulos, Karen Emmerich, Landscape with Dog, the Quarterly Conversation
