Stephen-Paul Martin

The Glossolalia

Fiction

“The Glossolalia is loaded with brilliant images and wordplay, evoking writers like Beckett, Joyce, Artaud, and Ionesco. While Silke is skilled in creating fictive scenes rich in setting detail and clever dialogue, his ultimate goal is metafictional, and the narrative is repeatedly undercut by absurd yet oddly exact theoretical observations. . . . His first book is accessible and entertaining, playfully scrambling aesthetic conventions while asking important questions about artistic integrity and verbal representation.”