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Titel: The Weight of Things
Zustand: New
Autor: Marianne Fritz
Translator: Adrian Nathan West
Contributor: Adrian Nathan West (Translated by)
Produktart: Taschenbuch
ISBN-10: 1786632969
EAN: 9781786632968
ISBN: 9781786632968
Verlag: Verso Books
Genre: Fiction
Release date: 05/09/2017
Description: The first of the late Marianne Fritz's works to be translated into English. This dark gem of a novel swerves from uneasy pantomime comedy to sheer domestic horror. Fritz has a clammy handle on all that makes humans miserable: roll up for the horrors of jealousy, war, confinement, mental illness, regret and unhappy motherhood.

The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). After winning acclaim with this novel-awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978-she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called "The Fortress," which earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.

Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 198mm
Länge: 129mm
Gewicht: 174g

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