Volatile Texts: Us Two
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Swiss Literature Series
ISBN-10
1628971363
ISBN-13
9781628971361
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 2017
Print length
100 Pages
Weight
146 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 17.80 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating, yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.
The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.
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