Description
After completing his monumental historical study, a middle-aged history professor finds himself unmoored—his intellect sharpened by years of scholarship, yet his private life thrown into disarray. In a novel of restless introspection, William Frederick Kohler confronts the gaps between what he has studied and what he can no longer explain about guilt, responsibility, and the stories people tell themselves to survive. As his thoughts circle back through memory and moral reckoning, the “tunnel” becomes both a metaphor for inward descent and a test of whether understanding can ever redeem what time has damaged. With William H. Gass’s distinctive, philosophically charged style—dense, lyrical, and psychologically exacting—the book turns the act of narration into a dramatic inquiry into identity, history, and the uneasy limits of innocence.
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paperback
Dalkey archive press
Published Jan 1, 2012
653 pages
ISBN: 9781564782137
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for The Tunnel by William H. Gass.