Schattenfroh : a requiem / Michael Lentz ; translated by Max Lawton ; edited by Matthias Friedrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lentz, Michael, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Lawton, Max, translator.

Friedrich, Matthias, editor.

Standardized Title:

Schattenfroh. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Fathers--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

1001 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2025.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from German.

Summary:

"An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious 'psychogeography of the self that both disrupts and elevates the twenty-first century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading-Schattenfroh-directed by none other than the narrator's mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations of Renaissance art, the German reformation, time-defying esoterica, the printing process in the sixteenth century, Kabbalistic mysticism, and beyond, Schattenfroh is a remarkable book that, in turn, asks the remarkable of its readers. Interruptions, breaks, and annotations both buoy and deceive, and endless historical references, literary allusions, and wordplay construct a baroque, encyclopedic quest. Schattenfroh's publication in English marks a seminal moment in the history of the literary form."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published as Schattenfroh: Ein Requiem in German by S. Fischer Verlage, Frankfurt am Main, 2018"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Lentz, Michael, 1964- Schattenfroh

ISBN:

9781646053827

1646053826

OCLC:

1452504951