Verwandte Artikel zu Annihilation (Norwegian Literature)
Inhaltsangabe
Like Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, Annihilation is about a day in the life of a town - in this case, a Polish-Jewish town shortly before World War II. The reader participates in the life of the town instant by instant - from the moment when the local courtesan pours the contents of her chamber pot out her open window up to the moment when the city policemen return to night duty. For the narrator, every object, every person and event belongs to the world he strives to save from impending annihilation: the landscape of beer drops left on a counter, the dance of the Hasidim before the Town Hall, the taste of mint drops in an attorney's mouth. As the minutes on the Town Hall's clock measure the day's passing, and as this day's passing brings the town one day closer to its historical annihilation, a Book of the Day writes itself, preserving the town in memory against the ravages of time and history. Already a success in Poland and in translation in France, Germany, and Italy, Piotr Szewc's novel has been compared to the novels of Proust and to the paintings of Chagall.
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Piotr Szewc was born in 1961 in Zamosc, the eastern Polish town that is the model for the town in "Annihilation", his first novel. He has published poems, essays, and translations, and works in Warsaw as a free-lance writer. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough is a graduate of both Wroclaw University in Poland and Virginia Tech. Her work has appeared in publications such as "The New Yorker, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares", and the "Chicago Review". Piotr Szewc's "Annihilation" was her first translation.
Von der hinteren Coverseite
Like Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, Annihilation is about a day in the life of a town - in this case, a Polish-Jewish town shortly before World War II. The reader participates in the life of the town instant by instant - from the moment when the local courtesan pours the contents of her chamber pot out her open window up to the moment when the city policemen return to night duty. For the narrator, every object, every person and event belongs to the world he strives to save from impending annihilation: the landscape of beer drops left on a counter, the dance of the Hasidim before the Town Hall, the taste of mint drops in an attorney's mouth. As the minutes on the Town Hall's clock measure the day's passing, and as this day's passing brings the town one day closer to its historical annihilation, a Book of the Day writes itself, preserving the town in memory against the ravages of time and history. Already a success in Poland and in translation in France, Germany, and Italy, Piotr Szewc's novel has been compared to the novels of Proust and to the paintings of Chagall.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Suchergebnisse für Annihilation (Norwegian Literature)
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
Annihilation
Verlag:
Dalkey Archive Press, IL, 1993
ISBN 10: 1564780341
ISBN 13: 9781564780348
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dustwrapper has sticker residue on top of front cover. Artikel-Nr. 118227
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar