The shadow of the coachman's body / Peter Weiss ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Rosmarie Waldrop and with illustrations by the author

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Waldrop, Rosmarie, translator.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1527.

A New Directions paperbook ; 1527

Standardized Title:

Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

90 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Summary:

"Peter Weiss's first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman's Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop's stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house-stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box-which have oblique characters' shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a "micro-novel," The Shadow of the Coachman's Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities-like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published as Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1960"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780811231619

0811231615

OCLC:

1260132181

Publisher Number:

99992539298