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About
T.K. Pernak
Books
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The Narrative
In a frost-bitten city on the brink of the modern age, Feliciano Count Patz—writer, skeptic, and reluctant dreamer—struggles with imagination, ambition, and the petty humiliations of everyday life. When a mysterious newspaper advertisement promises ready-made narrators and bespoke characters, Feliciano makes a decision that will change everything. Enter Ferdinand Socrates Cornflower: an eerie, brilliant narrator whose arrival after a winter storm blurs the boundary between authorship and surrender. As philosophy, satire, and dark humor intertwine, Feliciano is drawn into a contract that questions free will, creativity, and the true cost of storytelling. Peopled with grotesque bureaucrats, absurd agents, and metaphysical bargains, this novel is a playful yet unsettling meditation on art, control, and identity. Rich in atmosphere and irony, it invites readers into a world where imagination rebels against its creator—and where the act of writing itself may be the most dangerous gamble of all.
