Fliegelman’s Desire

Description

Fliegelman works a boring job. His is an untrustworthy existence in which the days conspire against him and the city park acts as their accomplice; moreover, the surreal, purposeful world plots to thwart him from attaining or even understanding his "desire." His desire, a vague longing, at first directed at his former wife, soon becomes disembodied, achieving a mystical status. He attempts to follow strangers to gather up bits of their leftover desire. He quits his dull office for a bookstore position, where he can observe people desiring books. He meets Mimi, another student of desire, and they have an affair that leads the plot into some rapid, bizarre twists and an ending that doesn't quite live up to the rest of the story.