The Angel in Wax

How we “selve” our identities is the deep background for Anton’s new novella, The Angel in Wax. In his contemporary story four people come to know each other in strange circumstances an through unusual ways. Each is a representative of how thoughtful people from different walks of life, seemingly settled in their lives, begin to confront themselves : the circumstances of their lives, their work, their friendships, their beliefs, loves and lovers, their deaths. These diverse post-modern people are shown to be struggling with some of the same principal matters that people a hundred-fifty years ago began to encounter --- who to believe in, what to believe in, how to live their beliefs, and die their deaths according to them. Like those before them, they seem caught between two words, waiting for a new life.