How I Became One of the Invisible - David Rattray fiction where the higher echelons of

where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the fear of an impending revolution - these stories show how strange and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw ordinary people towards mystery

like a drunken Norse king

admired Walser’s work (Max Brod records with what delight Kafka would read Walser’s humorous sketches aloud)

and in doing so paid tribute to the author who could evoke both the intellect of Leonardo da Vinci and the anarchy of Ubu Roi

After witnessing firsthand the Russian Revolution

How I Became One of the Invisible - David Rattray fiction where the higher echelons ofRattray's translations of Roger Gilbert Lecomte made a big impression on me *** Summary The only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition. Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to