Kryptadia

...... this is a text that affords, incites and rewards a rereading, not only because it deals with (the only) ultimate issues-mortality, preeminently, -then truth, love, friendship, art, and (the very possibility) of solitude...but also by way of its fascinating and immensely variegated style-at once personal, austere, nostalgic, trenchantly and intensely insightful, -by turns (especially self-) critical, arrogant, scholarly, analytical, often lyrical and musical, full of haunting refrains and poetic and philosophical citation, and culminating symphonically with some remarkable poetry -in short Dostoevskian .........