Invisible
His early novels depicted characters at sea in a dystopia (New York Trilogy), or utterly lost (In the Country of Last Things), or simply desolate (The Book of Illusions).
They could be called bleak but there is a sort of resolution reached at the final curtain. However, so much of the action is folded back on itself it is hard to tell where the end really is. Invisible is a case in point. The action takes place from 1967 to 2007 mainly in Paris and New York. Adam Walker, a young student of poetry, is lured into the world of Rudolf Born and his lover Margot. Born is a deeply sinister character whose malaise is captured by the callow Walker by referencing a medieval French poet who shares Born’s name and his sadistic temperament.
