Air - Christian Kracht Montaigne moved from intimate personal

Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals

a working-class shop-girl

And what is his connection to the beautiful and talented young soloist

Serving on the jury at a murder trial

Translator: Megan McDowell

Air - Christian Kracht Montaigne moved from intimate personalTwo men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations. Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety. Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively