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Dyad is Michael Brodsky's fourth novel. It is narrated by an urban lowlife known only as X—. He is hired by the dying tycoon Jamms, who wants X— to convince Jamms's estranged artist son Jim to come home, and let bygones be bygones. The "dyad" of the title refers to two people who are linked, what Beckett called a "pseudo-couple". X—, speaking about Jim, says: We were constructed to be polar opposites so that the story—our story—might be born.

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  • Dyad (novel) (en)
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  • Dyad is Michael Brodsky's fourth novel. It is narrated by an urban lowlife known only as X—. He is hired by the dying tycoon Jamms, who wants X— to convince Jamms's estranged artist son Jim to come home, and let bygones be bygones. The "dyad" of the title refers to two people who are linked, what Beckett called a "pseudo-couple". X—, speaking about Jim, says: We were constructed to be polar opposites so that the story—our story—might be born. (en)
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  • Chris Wise (en)
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  • This is really a novel of the meditations that surround meditations, and an act of thought here is as every bit as imposing and important as physical behavior... Dyad is an anthem sung from an urban dump by one of those tenors who sing Bach's cantatas. (en)
  • Disbelief in the power of language to convey the experience of being is dispiriting fare, and such propositions are contentiously pressed. One wonders how long failure, unrelieved by humor or compassion, can continue as the occasion for Brodsky's art. (en)
  • This extraordinary novel ... continues Brodsky's evolution as one of the most important writers working today, and demands our attention. (en)
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  • Dyad is Michael Brodsky's fourth novel. It is narrated by an urban lowlife known only as X—. He is hired by the dying tycoon Jamms, who wants X— to convince Jamms's estranged artist son Jim to come home, and let bygones be bygones. The "dyad" of the title refers to two people who are linked, what Beckett called a "pseudo-couple". X—, speaking about Jim, says: We were constructed to be polar opposites so that the story—our story—might be born. As is clear from the above quotation, metafictional issues are present in the novel. X— makes frequent reference to the "story-mongers" and "meaning-mongers", and is constantly trying to figure out whether trivial matters that happen qualify as "incidents" or "events" or are otherwise "part of the story". (en)
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