Love in a Dead Language A Romance

"The mix of ivory tower babble, murderous intrigue and sicko love story is enticing; the sheer breadth of Siegel's style makes the book irresistible. Reeling from hallucinatory poetry to wry parody, high theory to base eroticism, Siegel seems engulfed by the same rapture over language that his debauched protagonist feels for love. LOVE IN A DEAD LANGUAGE triumphs in so many areas--poetic, intellectual, comic, erotic--that it hardly matters that Siegel bends the integrity of his characters in order to pursue his peculiar vision. His work stands out as a book that is not simply a novel but its own genus of rollicking, narrative scholarship, and in an age when many, inside the academy and out, are finally merging the dreary mind-body split, it is just the cerebral aphrodisiac we need."Siegel, Lee is the author of 'Love in a Dead Language A Romance' with ISBN 9780226756998 and ISBN 0226756998.