Walaschek's Dream

Name: Walaschek's Dream
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
SKU: 9781564787224
Price: 3000 KES
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ISBN: 9781564787224

by Giovanni Orelli

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1564787222

ISBN-13 9781564787224

Publisher Dalkey Archive Press

Imprint Dalkey Archive Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 5th, 2012

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 666 grams

Dimensions 20.30 x 14.20 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Fiction in translation

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Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled "Alphabet I," which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup. This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli's encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism, where a motley crew of philosopher-peasants as well as historical luminaries like Arthur Schopenhauer, Vincent van Gogh, Viktor Shklovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Klee himself, and the titular footballer Eugene Walaschek all meet at the local tavern and debate the significance of Klee's work. Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, "Walaschek's Dream" is a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and the immortalizing power of art.

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