LITERATURE, APHORISM, POETRY
"Here is something really new. Róbert Gál's archipelago of fragmentary narratives, ruminations and aphorisms gives us a new kind of reading experience—one marked by disjunction and divergence rather than by linear narrative or structured argument. I’d like to think of Naked Thoughts as a harbinger of a writing to come, unconfined by any of the familiar categories we use to classify our books."
—Lars Iyer
Memoir, Fiction, Philosophy
"The starting point and the point of return intersect, perhaps on a single level higher, perhaps on two. Hegelian dialectic couples with myth on eternal return. We exit from agnomia and into her we return, illuminated by the journey, by the experience of words."
—Ladislav Šerý
Experimental Fiction
"Róbert Gál is a phenomenon unto himself: a purveyor of neurotic philosophy encapsulated in elliptical portents and epifragmentals, the content of which is at all odds with their length."
—Joshua Cohen
Aphorism, Philosophy, Poetry
"For Gál, the paradox is the order at the heart of things; it is both the structure of the universe and the 'logic' of the human mind."
—American Book Review
"In our millennium, a time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is Róbert Gál."
—The Forward