The Book of Amba Besarion |
|
| Author:
| Kharanauli, Besik |
| Translator:
| Heighway, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Georgian Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62897-124-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
|
| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
|
In this groundbreaking, genre-defying book, three narrators--a sage, a vagabond, and a young boy--journey through an internal landscape of philosophical reflection, banal observation, and absurdity wisdom, of mundanity and madness, of prose, free verse, and rhyme. Disoriented by the confusion and discontinuity of the text, the reader will find herself free to manipulate its fragments at will, to reconstruct a whole from its parts, and in doing so to accompany its three narrators on...
More Description
In this groundbreaking, genre-defying book, three narrators--a sage, a vagabond, and a young boy--journey through an internal landscape of philosophical reflection, banal observation, and absurdity wisdom, of mundanity and madness, of prose, free verse, and rhyme. Disoriented by the confusion and discontinuity of the text, the reader will find herself free to manipulate its fragments at will, to reconstruct a whole from its parts, and in doing so to accompany its three narrators on their quest.