from CONSIDERING AUGY

by Jake Clark
Both in his work and in his life, Augy failed. Augy reports the unending misery and bafflement of consciousness seeking itself his conviction of his chronic alienation from his own consciousness is that his mental deficit becomes directly or indirectly the dominant inexhaustible subject of his compass. Nowhere in the entire history of writing in the first person is there as tireless and detailed a record of the microstructure of mental pain.

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