The frontiers of the sublime extend into the far reaches of space in Georgi Gospodinovs cosmic adventure starring archetypal astronauts Adam and Eve, Laika the dog and naturally, aMusca domesticaor fruit fly.

The Bulgarian authors exercise in libretto writing takes the shape of a giant poem patterned after a hyper-saturated present where information is everything/And everything is informationisnt it?. In answer, Gospodinov heads out of bounds, roving between Mars and Earth; voices, scales, valences of emotion. Mediated by camera cues and an insectoid chorus, Space Operais a genre-collapsing work engaging an irreducible expanse of human and more-than-human experience on the cusp of seismic evolution.

Translated by Angela Rodel

Paperback | 176 pages | 4″ x 2.75″