The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

The Burial of the Count of OrgazThe Burial of the Count of Orgaz is the second half of Yuriy Tarnawsky's First Person Dilogy, published in 2024, the year before his death at 91. Where its companion Sebastian in a Dream is built on Bach's Goldberg Variations, this novel is built on El Greco's painting of the same name, the 1586 canvas in the Church of Santo Tom in Toledo. Thirty variations, roughly one per figure in the painting. The narrator is a man who has come to Toledo to die.

The form was Tarnawsky's own invention: short prose built on what he called "negative text

and the dreams and nightmares that connect them

" and it is the book that opened Hugunin's late-career fiction run at JEF

who suggested an entire issue be devoted to his own work and inadvertently launched what became the press's signature editorial form

Meirose is a Somerville

It won the 2011 Broad Set Collective Award for the Innovative Novel

"in quite Midwestern fashion

five mininovels at the center of a fifteen-mininovel cycle

Its prime symptom is that they are driven apart into separate realities

and it arrived the year before his death

not a side effect of it

Every letter routes back to "A