Merger (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Spuyten Duyvil, 2026
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- New
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Paperback. Evoking the satirical acuity of David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, and Helen DeWitt, the bureaucratic dread of Franz Kafka, the entropic sprawl of Thomas Pynchon, and the polyphonic experimentation of Valeria Luiselli, Renata Adler, and Lance Olsen, John Schertzer's Merger deftly depicts the modern office as a horror-scape of techno-capitalist absurdity. In a flickering mosaic of monologues and fractured perspectives, the novel captures the shimmer of thought under surveillance, where cubicles, clouds-both meteorological and computational-and endless data flows shape a world of relentless scrutiny and optimization. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Merger (Paperback)
- Author
- John Schertzer
- Publisher
- Spuyten Duyvil
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1969900164
- ISBN 13
- 9781969900167
Jon Woodson, author of To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance
Evoking the satirical acuity of David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, and Helen DeWitt, the bureaucratic dread of Franz Kafka, the entropic sprawl of Thomas Pynchon, and the polyphonic experimentation of Valeria Luiselli, Renata Adler, and Lance Olsen, John Schertzer’s Merger deftly depicts the modern office as a horror-scape of techno-capitalist absurdity. In a flickering mosaic of monologues and fractured perspectives, the novel captures the shimmer of thought under surveillance, where cubicles, clouds—both meteorological and computational—and endless data flows shape a world of relentless scrutiny and optimization. Here, accounting becomes existential, a practice of justification as much as calculation, while small, luminous acts of rebellion pulse beneath the surface. At once allegory and black comedy, Merger artfully probes the violence of daily life under corporate and technological power, revealing a human vitality straining at the limits of its own quantification, still yearning and reaching for freedom, intimacy, and significance.”
John Madera, author of Nervosities and Nomad Science
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