Echo's Fugue

<div><br> Through a series of variations on the theme of love-unrequited polyamorous monogomous scandalous adulterous-Desirae Matherly's <i>Echo's Fugue </i>explores love in all its failures and delusions. <i>Patterned</i> <i>on the unfinished</i> <i>The Art of Fugue </i>by Johann Sebastian Bach which has been a mystery for centuries<i> Echo's Fugue </i><i>undertakes Bach's project in prose-the tantalizing numerical correspondences throughout the repetition of a single theme the unfinished final piece.</i><br>  <br> Matherly's essays appear as letters indexes narrative or sentence diagrams each defying the rules of the blank page. Song lyrics obsession Greek mythology psychology game theory and human sexuality form a fragmented narrative about loss and unhealthy attachments. Mimicry of Bach's fugues leads the author to questions about love sex desire the Bach or Stravinsky paradigm in game theory and relationships considered taboo by mainstream standards.<br> What authority speaks clearest with regard to love sex and desire-and is objectivity even possible? The final essay attempts to resolve this question while echoing the puzzle of Bach's final unfinished fugue.<br>  </div>