Fabian A Cubist Biography

Fabian: A Cubist Biography is a surreal venture into what happens when a novelist writes a biography...of someone who never existed. Unbeknownst to Fabian, the disillusioned, would-be filmmaker after whom this enigmatic novel is named, his inventor and biographer-a writer known as Tom Newton-has abandoned conventional authorial practice and conscious decision-making. Fabian, press-ganged into existence, is inspired or doomed to create his own fictive universe peopled with conquistadors, Aztec priests, a charlatan psychoanalyst, immortal alchemists, and more. The tale careens across time and the globe in a bizarre whirl of adventure both psychic and corporeal. Opinions, digressions, ambiguous photographs, even footnotes and appendices challenge the novel form. No assumptions can be made! Iztlaca Tenemilizpoalli... The biography of a mutable individual who is not so much a fictional character as a type of literary tulpa. In other words he has been created from a liberated speculation and a rigorous whimsy, his flesh and bones and career grown from the protein of an organic thought experiment.