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Zundel's Exit
Werner, Markus; Hoffman, Michael
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Description for Zundel's Exit
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 214 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Z?ndel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent... At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. First his tooth falls out in the sight of other travelers, then he finds a severed finger in a restroom on a train. In fact, Z?ndel seems on the verge of falling to bits, as do his words, thoughts, wife, and world--will there be anything left, and ... Read more
Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Z?ndel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent... At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. First his tooth falls out in the sight of other travelers, then he finds a severed finger in a restroom on a train. In fact, Z?ndel seems on the verge of falling to bits, as do his words, thoughts, wife, and world--will there be anything left, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564789211
SKU
V9781564789211
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Ref
99-15
About Werner, Markus; Hoffman, Michael
Markus Werner was born in 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Having written his dissertation on Max Frisch, Werner worked as a teacher in Schaffhausen before becoming a full-time writer in 1990. He is the author of seven novels, including On the Edge (2004), and has won numerous prizes. Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet, critic, and translator from ... Read more
Reviews for Zundel's Exit
Like Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, or Beckett's Murphy, or the high-pitched monodrama of the impasse we get in Buster Keaton, Z ndel's Exit gorges on the limit point of madness, of fidgeting hands and heads and hearts punished by the sclerosis of cramped conditions... Z ndel's Exit arrives in English... thirty years too late yet right on time. Nation