[09/28/26] Doppelt, Suzanne: And Suddenly into Nothing

In the middle of a London park, a couple behaves strangely under the gaze of a photographer who happens to capture them through his viewfinder. When he realizes he may have witnessed a crime while believing he was photographing a simple encounter, the park becomes a theatre. The ordinary scene opens and closes at once, becoming a mystery he attempts to unravel through the chemical bath of his darkroom and an on-site investigation. The photographer has seen what he will never see again, or thought he saw, or perhaps did not see. A murder has undoubtedly taken place, yet nothing comes of it, and the mystery remains unresolved.

Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, Julio Cortázar's Las babas del diablo (The Devil's Drool), and Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia, Suzanne Doppelt's novel is a brilliant meditation on perception, photography, chance, and the impossibility of certainty.