A writer who disappears into his characters
JIM BARTLEY
January 26, 2008
IN A MIST
By Devon Code
Invisible, 126 pages, $14.95
Code turns Humphrey Bogart’s real-life chess habit to good advantage in The White Knight. A “chess-metaphor theorist” relates the tale of his Bogie-inspired religious conversion in 22nd-century California. The highbrow film trivia unpacked by this obsessive academic is (based on my web-cruise) mostly real. It seems that in the chess scene of Casablanca, a white knight mysteriously disappears from the board between takes. The possible meaning of this – and the story’s ambitious bridging of worlds a century and a half apart – make for a pleasing fantastical flight.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Has Code done any other book?