
Whose stories deserve to be told? & whose words should do the telling? In Felix Culpa Jeremy Gavron conjures up a work of extraordinary literary alchemy a novel made out of lines taken from a hundred great works of literature It follows a writer on the trail of a boy recently released from prison who has been discovered dead in the cold north frozen & alone But in searching for the boy's story will he lose his own? Magical & moving Felix Culpa is a living demonstration of how storytelling works by sound & by rhythm by elision & by omission as well as by reference & by allusion It asks what happens when we lose the narrative of our own life & fall into someone else's