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Title: The Shadow of the Coachman's Body
Condition: New
Author: Peter Weiss
Translator: Rosmarie Waldrop
Contributor: Rosmarie Waldrop (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0811231615
EAN: 9780811231619
ISBN: 9780811231619
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 20/05/2022
Description: Peter Weiss’s first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house—stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box—which have oblique characters’ shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a “micro-novel,” The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities—like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 185mm
Item Length: 114mm
Item Width: 8mm
Item Weight: 95g
Release Year: 2022

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