
Utilizing Wittgenstein, Tarkovsky, and Arthur Schnitzler as models, Grant Maierhofer's Traumnovelle explores history as novel, spiraling out from the incident in 1978, when Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski unwittingly stuck his head inside the beam of the U-70 Synchrotron...

Traumnovelle explores the incident in 1978 when Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski unwittingly stuck his head inside of a particle accelerator. While a work of fiction, Maierhofer explores the reverberating effects of this incident in the life of "Anatol," using the...