Oasis
The Seneds’ seventh novel is written in the form of “worksheets,” as Aleph calls his confessional diary, which he is writing while working on a blueprint to enshrine rules governing the model society. The blueprint is never written; contradictions and sensuality defy Aleph’s rigidity. By degrees, he is drawn into the shadows of his past and is humanized.
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“ Thrilling. At first, Aleph is the very height of rationality. Eventually he is exposed as a man driven by disappointment. But Oasis is not so much a novel of events but of ideas, beckoning its readers into an intellectual experience.”