Marathon D'Écriture by Andrew Komarnyckyj

In the solitude of his room, Alan Bland confronts the shattering loss of his enigmatic best friend, known only as X. Armed with a typewriter and a heart on tenterhooks, Alan embarks on a marathonian six-day, six-night challenge, pouring out a torrent of memories to unravel the man who was both his confidant and rival.

X, a figure cloaked in unsettling secrecy, formed one pinnacle of a tangled love triangle with Alan and the elusive Amara, a woman whose allure proved both magnetic and devastating. As Alan recounts their fraught romance, he lays bare the wounds of Amara’s choice.

As the hours blur and exhaustion takes hold, Alan’s prose frays, veering into fevered, semi-conscious revelations. Exhausted and close to death, after hitting the wall, he makes a supreme effort at the climax of his tale to finally reveal the startling truth about X.

For readers of Andrew Komarnyckyj’s sharp wit and literary finesse, as seen in his novel Ezra Slef, Marathon d’Écriture delivers a darkly romantic and intellectually provocative tale, laced with mordant humour and profound insight, a journey that will resonate with all those who have ever wrestled with the ghosts of love, secrecy, memory and death.

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Andrew Komarnyckyj is a storyteller whose eclectic skills and work life fuel his sharp, genre-defying fiction. From lawyer to hospital porter, PR consultant to kitchen porter, his kaleidoscope of experiences described by himself as a “happy accident” lends his novels a rare depth, intellectual strength and authenticity. This vibrant backdrop shines in his new dark romance, Marathon d’Écriture, a tale of love, secrecy and revelation that promises to captivate readers surprises of any kind .

Andrew is the author of several books including The Revenge of Joe wild and Ezra Slef, The Next Nobel Laureate in Literature, a novel which the Washington Post said: “pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien, and other tricksy authors.”

Best known for Literary Fiction, he also writes psychological thrillers and horror using the pen-names Jack D McLean and A K Reynolds.

His work often defies classification. The only genre to which it truly belongs is Komarnyckyj, a genre with postmodernist and alt-lit tendencies, always bordering on the absurd and unexpectedly humorous.