On an arbitrary day, in an arbitrary space, there is a table with a cup of coffee on it, and a chair, and you’re sitting on it, that’s you, you stir your coffee, you close a window, you open one. Something has to change. You don’t know what, you don’t know how. You’re bored, you’re longing. You’re stuck, you want to move. Slowly, the realization dawns upon you that there is only one thing that can save you: imagination.

You Sit on a Chair is a kaleidoscopic portrait of someone who, trapped in the grind of daily life, desperately tries to get up. Bob Vanden Broeck examines and undermines all the certainties upon which modern times are built, holding up a mirror to the reader. He proves himself a master at observing both the tangible and the less tangible aspects of reality, resulting in dizzying prose.