Sebastian in a Dream

Sebastian in a DreamSebastian in a Dream is the first half of Tarnawsky's final dilogy, published the year before his death in October 2025. The structure is borrowed from Bach's Goldberg Variations: thirty variations bracketed by an aria stated at the opening and restated at the close. The narrator is a semi comatose man waiting for a son who may or may not arrive, the entire novel taking place inside an internal monologue that keeps revising what it just said. The

it is Hugunin's largest book

and OD: Docufictions

see The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe

while Jaffe was still alive

a Festschrift built around one of American docufiction's most uncompromising practitioners

Alain Arias-Misson placed the novel in the line that ends with Finnegans Wake: Whatever you do

The working premise is Beckett's line from Molloy

and Michel Vachey (in translation)

requires not just a dip but a dive

The novelist Dominic Ward

and as Gerald's body and mind decline he moves from Independent Living to Assisted Living and

" gaps of vital information the reader is obliged to supply