Man in a Room Spray-Painting a Fly (or at Least Trying To), AConceived as a carefully staged gathering of texts slowly composing a unique, layered narrative, the book develops around a main character presented, like literature, as a corpse to be reanimated ad absurdum. This main story is then interrupted, fragmented and diverted from by other tales, stage directions and possible scenarios that operate as proposals for narrative changes. The writing is woven together as a continuous interlocking prose. It