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Volatile texts : us two / Zsuzanna Gahse ; translated from the German by Chenxin Jiang.
Van Pelt Library PT2667.A34 I6713 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gahse, Zsuzanna, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Swiss literature series
- Standardized Title:
- Instabile texte. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Fiction.
- Language and languages.
- Multilingualism--Fiction.
- Multilingualism.
- Europe--Fiction.
- Europe.
- Switzerland--Fiction.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- x, 121 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book's secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It's a perfect microcosm of Europe -- a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse's ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German as Instabile Texte by Edition Korrespondenzen in 2005"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781628971361
- 1628971363
- OCLC:
- 935986672
- Publisher Number:
- 99971553375
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