The country road : stories / Regina Ullmann ; translated from the German by Kurt Beals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961, author.

Contributor:

Beals, Kurt, translator.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1298.

New Directions paperbook

Standardized Title:

Landstrasse. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961--Translations into English.

Ullmann, Regina.

Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961.

Genre:

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

"Admired by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, Swiss author Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes. The stories in this volume are largely set in the Alpine countryside, and though resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter, Ullmann's distinctive, otherworldly voice has inspired comparisons to her contemporary Robert Walser. In her stories, the archaic and the modern collide. In one tale, a young woman on an exhausting country walk recoils at a passing bicyclist, but accepts a ride from a wagon, taking her seat on a trunk with a snake coiled inside. As Ullmann writes, "sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks." This delicate but brittle beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Regina Ullmann her unique voice" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The country road

Old tavern sign

- The mouse

The old man

Strawberries

The hot air balloon

The Christmas visit

Retold

The hunchback

Susanna

The girl.

Notes:

"Originally published as Die Landstrasse in 1921" -- Verso title page.

ISBN:

9780811220057

0811220052

OCLC:

881042433