"An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious 'psychogeography of the self' that both disrupts and elevates the twenty-first century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading--Schattenfroh--directed by none other than the narrator's mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations of Renaissance art, the German reformation, time-defying esoterica,...