Until the Sun Breaks Down: A Kunstlerroman in Three Parts: I. The Tolerance of Slaves

Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Kunstlerroman modeled on Dantes Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapters that mirror Dantes classic poem Nicolello takes the reader through present-day American towns and cities: infernal purgatorial and paradisal aspects with nothing left off the table. At once a book that can be read without any prior knowledge of Dante as the chronicle of William Fellows child of a poverty-stricken single mother and precocious student dreaming of something better than what society offers the book will serve as a guide to untold disconsolate Westerners who are wondering what has happened to American literature; where Catholic voices might emerge from and how; and a bulwark against militant atheism by immersing the subject head-on and elucidating how to remove ones self from technological desolation and recapture the essence of the Logos Incarnate or the love that moves the sun and other stars.