Deep vellum publishing jul 2000 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - -- First paperback edition.-- In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by -- perhaps even unaware of -- his failures, he confidently gets lost in the labyrinth of his investigations. Reminiscent of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, Calvino's Palomar, and Beckett's Watt, Mordechai Schamz ponders the mysteries of life through cliches and solipsisms, making himself the master of the illogical and the clown of the absurd.-- Marc Cholodenko is a prolific poet and novelist who has received numerous awards including the Prix Medicis, one of France's highest literary honors. This is his first work to be translated into English.-- First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('88).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - -- First paperback edition.-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds poetry everywhere he goes.-- Grabinoulor has been praised highly by authors as diverse as Apollinaire, Celine, and Queneau.-- Albert-Birot founded and edited one of the first avant-garde book reviews, SIC, which published the futurists, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists. Grabinoulor was first published in its pages.-- First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('87).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest and popular on such a subject can be made, and, while en route to the production site (Jason, producers and stars in first class--his wife and child in tourist), a dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art, and the world around him in several different ways at once.…