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Awakening to the Great Sleep War
Jonke
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Description for Awakening to the Great Sleep War
Paperback. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 292. 224 pages. 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. This enormously comic--and equally melancholic--tale is perhaps Jonke's masterwork. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 141 x 203 x 17. Weight: 292. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787941
SKU
V9781564787941
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About Jonke
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. Jean M. Snook lives with her husband on the easternmost tip of North America, the Avalon Peninsula on the ... Read more
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