The Light of Janos Globus

About the Book

The Light of Janos Globus is a potent work of literary fiction; it's a collection of 8 short stories relating to various characters and the responses each assumes in relation to a given situation. This well-written work will prove both critical and entertaining, because of its competent portrayal of characters and originality of composition. This is all about man/woman as an individual first, and foremost; an examination of the prototypes of human character: lives, thinking, real motifs, and crucially individual/collective responses to various challenges in a given frame of Reality. An impressive array of "case studies" attempts to represent a complex, differential space in which the exact relationships depend on the competence of interpretation. Some stories in this collection will crawl into your brain and stay there. From the intellectually satirical to the sensually articulate, a reader will find something to chew on. Though no two stories are the same, the general narration is sharp, though not always sequential, deceptive at times, leaving the reader to appreciate not just a well-executed plot, but also a subtle process of transition from one part to another, as well as a subliminal irony between the lines. Whether it's the romantic intoxicated cat who expresses its healthy sensuality through a "fictional" exercise of courtship in a bar, the public figure barrister who eventually becomes a victim of his own paranoia, or the dubious fantasist who constructs a complete universe based on a singular arbitrary (and flawed) vision, the conclusion is left open... but there is no escaping the stark reminder that whatever the evaluations there will be no conclusion arrived at that is not radical! Modernism, Socially-Conscious Literature - call it what you like; but the book brilliantly challenges the reader to separate the fictionality of characters from the Realities of what they can possibly represent.

About the Author

Maxim Solkin is a British citizen. He was born in Tripoli (West) to Sudanese expatriate parents. He has also lived in Jeddah, Khartoum, Eindhoven, and Rosmalen (Holland). He has spent most of his adult life in London where he resides.