First published 2019
Hamlet writes to the Princess of Cleves across the void between their fictional worlds. She responds. Their correspondence unfolds as a verbal duel while universes collapse around them. Above them watch gods who themselves answer to higher gods in an endless hierarchy of torment. What appears finite in our world reveals itself as infinite and unknowable. The prince and princess conduct their impossible romance through language that serves as both weapon and shield. Their letters become the only solid ground as everything familiar dissolves into oblivion. This epistolary exchange forms the heart of a work that transforms human suffering into elaborate rhetoric. The correspondence continues even as the boundaries between their separate realities blur and fail. Through their written words, Hamlet and the Princess create a connection that transcends the destruction of their worlds.
Genres: literary-fiction, fantasy
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: epistolary, unreliable-narrator
192 pages · Hardcover · Atlas Press