Gert Jonke

Awakening to the Great Sleep War

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One of the loveliest riddles of Austrian literature is finally available in English translation: Gert Jonke's 1982 novel, Awakening to the Great Sleep War, is an expedition through a world in constant nervous motion, where reality is rapidly fraying-flags refuse to stick to their poles, lids sidle off of their pots, tram tracks shake their stops away like fleas, and books abandon libraries in droves. Our cicerone on this journey through the possible (and impossible) is an acoustical decorator by the name of Burgmüller-a poetical gentleman, the lover of three women, able to communicate with birds, and at least as philosophically minded as his… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Snook, Jean M (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-56478-794-1
EAN: 9781564787941
Produktnummer: 18968865
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 224 S.

Über den Autor

Gert Jonke is counted among Austria's most important authors and dramatists. Among other prizes, he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Erich Fried Prize, and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature. He died in 2009 at the age of 62.