Christian Lorentzen om Transcription:

The interchangeable quality of the fictional elements in Lerner’s novels signals an anxiety about his own artistic method, as it’s both the way his art is made and the thing that most troubles his characters, the sense that they are disposable and could easily be replaced. What puts the narrator in hospital for ten days but the despair that he’s been replaced by a Spaniard? Yet the method remains fertile for Lerner, his poetry and novels recording devices more sensitive than the glass flowers for projecting ourselves into the future – us, or people a lot like us.