An intriguing story of Kafkaesque, philosophical fiction

Alphonse Mox, a newly appointed clerk in the Ministry of Culture, is handed the unwanted task of researching the byzantine rules of an arcane sport played in the country’s remote, southernmost province. Frustrated at every turn but grimly persistent, he is drawn into a weird, darkly comic, and increasingly paranoid journey that calls into question the nature of society, free will, and reality itself.

The Sport is a work of absurdist philosophical fiction inspired by Kafka’s The Castle, Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, Gerald Murnane’s The Plains, and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe, as well as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It serves as an allegorical meditation on existence from multiple vantage points, both cultural and political, and both psychological and metaphysical.