With My Dog Eyes A Novel |
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| Author:
| Hilst, Hilda |
| Translator:
| Morris, Adam |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61219-345-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor - his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself a part of. Written in a fragmented style that echoes the character's increasingly fragile hold on reality, With My Dog-Eyes is an intensely vivid read. Hilst, whose father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, has created a lacerating, and yet oddly hopeful,...
More DescriptionSomething has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor - his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself a part of. Written in a fragmented style that echoes the character's increasingly fragile hold on reality, With My Dog-Eyes is an intensely vivid read. Hilst, whose father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, has created a lacerating, and yet oddly hopeful, portrayal of a descent into hell.