In “Owlish,” a new novel by Dorothy Tse, a lonely middle-aged professor falls in love with a life-size mechanical ballerina.
“The professor had his arms around Aliss’s waist, and imagined himself a prince from a fairy tale.” Already, the reader is peeking anxiously through her fingers.Literature is littered with the bodies of would-be lovers who gallop off the edge of reality. Don Quixote, the ur-fantasist, “spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset,” until “his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
The second Nevers is a shadow zone, a dream world behind or beneath the first. “Dangerous” but “full of unknown potential,” it hosts Q’s fecund—and unabashedly filthy—fantasy life. Tse’s prose curls around Q like a vine, dropping him in landscapes that are equal parts Bosch and Freud, lush and deranged. Imagine an after-hours cut of Disney’s “Fantasia”; Alexander Portnoy on acid; a Losing Your Virginity theme park brought to you by Mephistopheles.
The smog in Nevers engulfs the skyscrapers and the hand in front of one’s face—and perhaps also the student protests, which never appear in the news.
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