Forgetfulness - Reviews

"Forgetfulness is a real treasure and a necesary revelation."

—Rickki Ducornet, in Rain Taxi

"This is a dramatically ingenious work. As a first work it is even more remarkable and creates a sharp anticipation of what is to follow from such an author. Strongly recommended."

—The Compulsive Reader

"Forgetfulness is frightfully complex, but well worth the will to understand."

—Creative Loafing

"Michael Mejia's beautiful book Forgetfulness, like the music of Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg it describes, is at once rhapsodic and brilliantly patterned; intoxicating and starkly lucid; avant-garde and deeply lyrical; cleverly calculated and fiercely loving. As in twelve-tone music, the innovations of this astonishing contrapuntal record of Viennese society seem to have been undertaken because there was no other way to feel the material as fully."

—M. T. Anderson, Fiction editor, 3rd bed

Like archeological discoveries that recast the present, Michael Mejia's astonishing novel Forgetfulness reconstructs what art does best. Imagine music--and fiction--as a portrait of how the world works, instead of as entertainment or any of its other uses, and you'll get an intimation of his achievement.

—Steve Tomasula