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Confessions of a Future Thief (A triptych)

Eric Polfliet
Llumina Press (2009)
ISBN 9781605943848
Reviewed by Kam Aures for Rebeccasreads.com (07/10)


“The borderline!  I reached the borderline, where I lost my future and obtained a past.  For some people, it happens at age twenty, for others at thirty-two, for still others at thirty-eight.  It happened to me today.  I realized suddenly, with crushing clarity, that my past had overtaken my future.  Measured in days, my future could be longer, but after a certain age, the extra days were but add-ons, a terminal phase, a waiting room for death -- senile survival.   From today on, I had more past than future.  I had reached the borderline.” (p.3)

So begins Eric Polfliet’s second publication, “Confessions of a Future Thief.”  The novel focuses on a famous masterpiece by the van Eyck brothers called “The Adoration of the Mystical Lamb.”  One of the panels making up the work was stolen and that is what Polfliet’s story revolves around. 

Polfliet writes very intelligently and has quite an impressive vocabulary.   I found myself looking up a few words throughout the course of my reading, even including one of the title words, triptych.  Prior to reading this book I had never even heard of that word.    

 “Confessions of a Future Thief” is a very multi-dimensional book.  In some ways it reads like a non-fictional historical novel as much of the book appears to be derived from history.  The main concept and the thoughts of the sociopath in the novel made for a good read.  The novel is fairly short at only one hundred and sixty one pages but there is a lot in the compact book, it is not light reading.  If you enjoy intellectual fiction, I think that you will enjoy the many layers of Polfliet’s “Confessions of a Future Thief.”