John Russell Herbert

The Song of Ianto: Internal Exile of the Exposed Unknown John Russell Herbert

This was my first novella completed. It is the second in the trilogy comprising the existential trajectory of the protagonist. The despair, sin, and extreme "political incorrectness" found herein, particularly the despair and the sin, led to the redemption theme found in the "sequel", An Insurrection of Gods: Ianto's Redemption. The late-completed prequel, Prelude: Ianto's Montage of Dreams, is somewhat more open-ended in its trajectory and its vision. (This last-mentioned work is comprised of very early writing, as well as late-written material pertinent to early phases of the protagonist's life, along with, in a process of deepening existential subjectivism, new writing, covering later times, slung in non-chronologically, though the overall mimesis withstands this.)