Brutt, or the Sighing Gardens |
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| Author:
| Mayrocker, Friederike |
| Translator:
| Theobald, Roslyn |
| Series title: | Avant-Garde and Modernism Collection |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1966-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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brütt, or
The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer--a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to...
More Description brütt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer--a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to the linguistic experiments that Friederike Mayrocker performs as she explores them.