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An astonishing and fantastical autobiographical novel -- reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Laurence Sterne -- The System of Vienna details Jonke's travels through Vienna by streetcar, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progresses -- and meanwhile moving not just from trolley-stop to trolley-stop, but through life as well, from innocence to disillusionment, birth to death. Jonke meets a paranoiac fish wholesaler who believes he is directing all of Austrian politics from his little stall, a stamp collector in such deadly earnest he hopes to be appointed to a professorship in philately, and a compulsive talker who has developed a rigorous economic philosophy out of the most common objects to be found in a Vienna neighborhood. Slowly increasing the comic and fantastic elements in his story until they overwhelm all pretense to autobiography -- culminating in a strangely touching love scene between Jonke and a caryatid -- The System of Vienna reminds us that the very act of describing a life turns it into fiction.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Celý názov: System of Vienna
• Autor: Gert Jonke
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 125
• EAN: 9781564785503
• ISBN: 1564785505
• ID: 04230965
• Nakladateľ: W W NORTON & CO
• Hmotnosť: 159 g
• Rozmery: 197 × 159 × 8 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. December 2009

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