Chief among my unpublished manuscripts is a long novel Apocrypha, three plays and numerous essays, in particular about South Africa, where I lived for several years in the mid 1980s.
I regard Apocrypha as my finest work. The structure is highly nonlinear and nonchronological. To give an idea of how the novel is constructed, I sometimes say, Imagine a team of archaeologist-historians reconstructing a lost civilization and getting it entirely screwed up. (The rules of quantum mechanics also play a role.) In the case of Apocrypha, the lost civilization is a "metauniversity" named Alexandria--the university of all universities. As historians reconstruct it, the argue about what went on. When one theory takes precedence over the previous, the plot line changes. Characters from various ages interact as if they were contemporaries. The main characters include Sphinx, Hector Berlioz, Kiril (a contemporary astrophysicist), a trappist monk, Paracelsus, Tamara (a woman who thinks she is Anna Karenina), Scheherezade. Apocrypha was written from 1980-1987.