Awakening to the Great Sleep War
by
Gert Jonke
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
156478794X
ISBN-13
9781564787941
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 14th, 2013
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
292 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 20.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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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 author: “Everything has suddenly become so transparent that one can’t see through anything anymore.” This enormously comic—and equally melancholic—tale is perhaps Jonke’s masterwork.
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