The conversation of the three wayfarers / Peter Weiss ; translated from the German by E.B. Garside ; with an introduction by John Keene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982, author.

Contributor:

Garside, E. B. (Edward Ballard), 1907-1999, translator.

Keene, John, 1965- other.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

A New Directions paperbook ; 1528

Standardized Title:

Gespräch der drei Gehenden. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Imaginary conversations--Fiction.

Imaginary conversations.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Summary:

"The Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents-the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in such a fantastic manner? Weiss's strikingly original prose has an impossibly contained quality, with each sentence doing a perfect double-double backflip before neatly landing. This essential rediscovered work, from the masterful and acclaimed German modernist Peter Weiss, will be a delightful discovery for readers of Kafka, Musil, and Gombrowicz"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published as Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1963"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780811231633

0811231631

OCLC:

1310717250