Samuel Andreyev inhabits several worlds: he is bilingual and lives in France; he is an internationally-known composer; and he is a writer whose material is the bric-a-brac of everyday speech and rhetoric, forged into a poetry of obsessive perfectionism.

Part mental autobiography, part ode to a new, radically mobile consciousness—The Relativistic Empire combines the diagrammatic elegance of the comic strip with the complexity and elusiveness of symbolism.