The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube)
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect.Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned -- like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan -- to undertake a voyage of discovery and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube. Communicating his experiences through terse -- and at times surreal -- telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy takes the reader on a fascinating European journey of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Aczel, Richard (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8101-1760-0
- EAN: 9780810117600
- Produktnummer: 9206599
- Verlag: Northwestern Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 246 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.6 cm 331 g
- Gewicht: 331
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