THE COMBINATIONS is a text whose 1) erudition dazzles, 2) structure humbles, 3) monotony never bores, 4) humour disarms, 5) relentlessness overwhelms, 6) storytelling captivates, 7) poignancy remains poignant, and 8) style simply never exhausts itself. Louis Armand wrote: Dear friends, this is just a short note to let. Covers are vibrantly illustrated with only minor surface/edge wear. Armand's prose weaves together the City's thousand-and- one fascinating tales with a deeply personal account of one lost soul set adrift amid the early-90s' awakening from the nightmare that was the previous half-century of communist Mitteleuropa. A letter from Louis Armand, followed by Ricardo Nirenbergs review of The Combinations. Spine is bowed though uncreased with hinges firmly attached. Reinhard) of the 20th (who attempted and succeeded in turning flesh into soap). Edward) of the 16th/17th centuries (who attempted and failed to turn lead into gold), and the infamous H's (e.g. Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D's (e.g. 'Golem City'), across the 20th-century and before/after. Golem City), across the 20th-century and before/after.

THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016), and GLASSHOUSE (Equus Press, 2018). In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility & chaos that is Prague (a.k.a. from the ones just adduced, that very subtle combinations of repression and ideologization. In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and 888 pages, Louis Armand's THE COMBINATIONS is an unprecedented 'work of attempted fiction' that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility & chaos that is Prague (a.k.a. Armands deftly written fragmentary narrative is a point-counter-point of. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Louis Althusser. The 'European anti-novel' in all its unrepentant glory is here in THE COMBINATIONS, following in the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Joyce, Perec. Shortlisted for The Guardian's 2016 Not the Booker prize.

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