{"title":"The First-Person Dilogy","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right: .5in; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eWritten in an internal monologue style, driven by incessant denial of what has been said he developed in his 2011 story ”Father,”\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eYuriy Tarnawsky’s\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFirst-Person Dilogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e mixes autobiographical data with fiction, to \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecreate a powerful, two-part music-like composition of syntax and semantics. The first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eSebastian in a Dream,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e was inspired by Georg Trakl’s famous eponymous poem and is patterned on J. S. Bach’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eGoldberg Variations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e consisting of thirty variations, preceded and followed by the same aria, and deals with a semi-comatose man expecting the arrival of his real or imaginary son. Its companion, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe Burial of the Count of Orgaz,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e which is based on El Greco’s masterpiece, also consists of thirty variations that roughly correspond to the thirty figures in the painting, describes a man who has come to die in the Spanish city of Toledo and visits each day the church in which the painting is housed, in order to see it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sebastian-in-a-dream","title":"Sebastian in a Dream","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right: .5in; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eWritten in an internal monologue style, driven by incessant denial of what has been said he developed in his 2011 story ”Father,”\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eYuriy Tarnawsky’s\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFirst-Person Dilogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e mixes autobiographical data with fiction, to \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecreate a powerful, two-part music-like composition of syntax and semantics. The first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eSebastian in a Dream,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e was inspired by Georg Trakl’s famous eponymous poem and is patterned on J. S. Bach’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eGoldberg Variations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e consisting of thirty variations, preceded and followed by the same aria, and deals with a semi-comatose man expecting the arrival of his real or imaginary son. 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The first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eSebastian in a Dream,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e was inspired by Georg Trakl’s famous eponymous poem and is patterned on J. S. Bach’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eGoldberg Variations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e consisting of thirty variations, preceded and followed by the same aria, and deals with a semi-comatose man expecting the arrival of his real or imaginary son. 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In particular, it explains the rules he developed in the first novel for structuring the text, aiming to render a text-based equivalent of the music-based rules of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It is intended for readers with strong interest in the craft of writing, and is suggested to be consulted after reading the novels.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/yuriy-tarnawsky\" title=\"Yuriy Tarnawsky\"\u003eYuriy Tarnawsky\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ehas published more than three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, most recently \u003cem\u003eThe First-Person Dilogy\u003c\/em\u003e. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as computer scientist, specializing in Artificial Intelligence at IBM Corporation as well as Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture at Columbia University. 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