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Reinhardt's garden / Mark Haber.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.A23835 R45 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haber, Mark, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melancholy--Fiction.
- Melancholy.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Authors.
- Nineteen hundreds (Decade).
- Philosophers.
- Croatia.
- South America.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle - not lost, mind you, but retired. Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely. From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this dense, fast-paced comedy where dark satire and skewed history converge."--Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haber, Mark, 1972- author. Reinhardt's garden
- ISBN:
- 9781566895620
- 1566895626
- OCLC:
- 1073035466
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