Through his games he has revealed an understanding of the power of enigma.
Lundeberg's aim, marvelously achieved in "The Red Planet" and elsewhere, was to fuse classical structure with the imaginative power of enigma.
Her boyfriend is Bill Callahan, aka singer-songwriter Smog, who is infamous for his dournesss and used to step out with another female enigma, Cat Power.
Sex? Together we do what we can to strip it of enigma and power, since without a patina of dullness it is too destabilizing to sustain, involving as it does "multiple surrenders, relinquishments of self-control... immersion in the sensations and rhythms of the other".
Among his other best-known works are "In a Free State" (1971), an acid portrayal of exiles in Africa, which won the Booker Prize that year; "A Bend in the River" (1979), another novel about Africa and the dislocation and chaos brought by postcolonial power struggles; and "The Enigma of Arrival" (1987), an autobiographical novel set around a decaying native English estate and its ailing landlord.
Had the Axis powers built a reduced Enigma, the outcome of the war might have been different.
After his real-life investigations of the 1960s and 70s, with Cadaveri Eccellenti (Illustrious Corpses, 1976), adapted from Leonardo Sciascia's novel Il Contesto (The Context), Rosi turned to a fictional story which nevertheless still explored the enigmas of power and corruption.
"A state, whatever definition you use, has a core to its identity," said Karel Van Wolferen, author of "The Enigma of Japanese Power," perhaps the seminal book on the Japanese power structure.
It is also an enigma, a powerful state wary of power, a lusterless leader.
Despite Kerr's claim to novelty, "Dogs and Demons" is but the latest in a series of broadsides (for example, Ivan Hall's "Cartels of the Mind," Norma Field's "In the Realm of a Dying Emperor," Karel van Wolferen's "Enigma of Japanese Power" and Edward Seidensticker's "Low City, High City") that correct the wide-eyed and superficial celebrations of Japan's great success.
That is the enigma and the power of architecture.
