Author: Marc Cholodenko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by -- perhaps even unaware of -- his failures, he confidently gets lost in the labyrinth of his investigations. Reminiscent of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, Calvino's Palomar, and Beckett's Watt, Mordechai Schamz ponders the mysteries of life through cliches and solipsisms, making himself the master of the illogical and the clown of the absurd.
Mordechai Schamz
Author: Marc Cholodenko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by -- perhaps even unaware of -- his failures, he confidently gets lost in the labyrinth of his investigations. Reminiscent of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, Calvino's Palomar, and Beckett's Watt, Mordechai Schamz ponders the mysteries of life through cliches and solipsisms, making himself the master of the illogical and the clown of the absurd.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by -- perhaps even unaware of -- his failures, he confidently gets lost in the labyrinth of his investigations. Reminiscent of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, Calvino's Palomar, and Beckett's Watt, Mordechai Schamz ponders the mysteries of life through cliches and solipsisms, making himself the master of the illogical and the clown of the absurd.
Alix's Journal
Author: Alix Cléo Roubaud
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Moving, fragile, and intimate, Alix s Journal is a unique testament to a great artist, lost before her time.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Moving, fragile, and intimate, Alix s Journal is a unique testament to a great artist, lost before her time.
Arriving in Avignon
Author: Daniël Robberechts
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A young man circles Avignon experiencing the town's history and exploring his own nature and sexuality.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A young man circles Avignon experiencing the town's history and exploring his own nature and sexuality.
Hypothermia
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.Hypothermiaexplores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.Hypothermiaexplores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.
Farewell to Prague
Author: Desmond Hogan
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."
Diary of a Blood Donor
Author: Mati Unt
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564784967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Here, Unt rather blasphemously weaves this national icon and her Latvian doctor husband into a postmodern tale of vampires and a mysterious trip to Leningrad.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564784967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Here, Unt rather blasphemously weaves this national icon and her Latvian doctor husband into a postmodern tale of vampires and a mysterious trip to Leningrad.
The Third Policeman
Author: Flann O'Brien
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.
Isle of Dreams
Author: Keizō Hino
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 156478603X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Sakai works for a construction company that builds high rise buildings in Tokyo, but gets introduced to parts of the city he's never seen after meeting a mysterious young woman.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 156478603X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Sakai works for a construction company that builds high rise buildings in Tokyo, but gets introduced to parts of the city he's never seen after meeting a mysterious young woman.
Trio
Author: Robert Pinget
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Trio marks the first time these three shorter Pinget works are collected in a single volume. From the sublime surrealism of Between Fantoine and Agapa, through the Faulknerian take on rural life in That Voice, to the musical rhythm and flow of Passacaglia, this collection charts the varied career of one of the French New Novel's true luminaries.The space between the fictional towns of Fantoine and Agapa is akin to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: an area where provincialism is neither romanticized nor parodied; where intrigue--often violent intrigue--confronts the bucolic ideal held both by insiders and outsiders; and where reality is shaped not by events, but by talk and gossip, by insinuation and conjecture. Written over the course of his career, these three novels are by turns hilarious and dark, surreal and painstakingly accurate; together they demonstrate the consistent quality of Pinget's versatility.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Trio marks the first time these three shorter Pinget works are collected in a single volume. From the sublime surrealism of Between Fantoine and Agapa, through the Faulknerian take on rural life in That Voice, to the musical rhythm and flow of Passacaglia, this collection charts the varied career of one of the French New Novel's true luminaries.The space between the fictional towns of Fantoine and Agapa is akin to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: an area where provincialism is neither romanticized nor parodied; where intrigue--often violent intrigue--confronts the bucolic ideal held both by insiders and outsiders; and where reality is shaped not by events, but by talk and gossip, by insinuation and conjecture. Written over the course of his career, these three novels are by turns hilarious and dark, surreal and painstakingly accurate; together they demonstrate the consistent quality of Pinget's versatility.
The Bamboo Bed
Author: William Eastlake
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"The plot revolves around Captain Clancy, who--mortally wounded while leading a charge up Ridge Red Boy--lies dying in a bamboo bed."--Back cover.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"The plot revolves around Captain Clancy, who--mortally wounded while leading a charge up Ridge Red Boy--lies dying in a bamboo bed."--Back cover.