"Although 'The Myth of Sisyphus' poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert. It has hence been thought possible to append to this philosophical argument a series of essays, of a kind I have never ceased writing, which are somewhat more marginal to my other books...The unity of this book, that I should like to be apparent to American reader as it is to me, resides in...

"The Gull Bone Index contains 24 original short stories and flash fictions. This innovative collection features distinct postmodernist leanings with an emphasis on magical realism, fragmented narrative structures, and elements of absurdism. Stories include a group of people in perpetual free fall, a woman in love with a dissipating gaseous cloud, a man with vine-like outgrowths on his knee, and other bizarre situations. Beneath these flashy conceits...