On Wing

On Wing, the first published work of fiction by the Slovak poet-philosopher Róbert Gál, is a constellation of hundreds of aphorisms, dreams, anecdotes, and inquiries, all written in a restless, searching, "improvisational" prose whose techniques reflect those of Bernhard, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard, not to mention the saxophonist and composer John Zorn, who makes a brief cameo as a character.

Róbert Gál is a Slovak-born writer and editor living in Prague. He is the author of several books of aphorisms, fiction, and philosophical fragments available in English translation, including Tractatus (Schism Press, 2022), Naked Thoughts (Black Sun Lit, 2019), Agnomia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), On Wing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), and Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003). Find more on www.robert-gal.com.

Mark Kanak is an author, translator and radioplay artist living in Berlin. He writes in German and English, has written 6 books and published countless translations (Serner, Schwab, Brinkmann and many others), and is the author of Lie Detector (Ritter Verlag, 2023) and Tractatus illogico-insanus (Ritter Verlag, 2018). His most recent radioplays include Tollhaus and Atmung, both Belleville Verlag (Munich) and both performed by Blixa Bargeld.