Book 2 of The Mutations · Roman Bessnaw · Complete

That Jewish Adagio

Some books inherit a history. This one inherits a nervous system.

That Jewish Adagio makes several claims that should be impossible to sustain inside one small book: that Jewish inheritance can survive without behaving like history; that artificial intelligence becomes morally interesting only after intelligence stops being the point; and that creation produces an obligation larger than its creator.

Philosophy, family memory, engineering, metaphysics, immigrant consciousness, satire, and ordinary decency occupy the same slow movement.