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System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square
Half philosopher and half clown-prince, Gert Jonke is Austria s comic gift to contemporary fiction.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2009
- Pages: 125
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.74in - 6.25in - 0.32in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781564785503
- Categories: • Literary• Humorous - General
About the Author
Jonke, Gert: - Gert Jonke is counted among Austria's most important authors and dramatists. Among other prizes, he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Erich Fried Prize, and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature. He died in 2009 at the age of 62.
Kling, Vincent: - Vincent Kling is professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Praise for this book
He played with language like a child with soap bubbles, but the bubbles contained extremely refined and precise thought instead of air. --Elfriede Jelinek, author of The Piano Teacher and Greed
The System of Vienna, with its commanding cadences, self-absorbed insistence, and entrancing repetitions, not to mention its childlike surrender to fantasy, is boundless fiction that both puzzles and entertains. --John Madera
In wild thunderstorms of language Jonke released a nearly indescribable energy with power enough to topple the whole world . . . He was the heir to such disparate ancestors as Borges and Robert Walser. --Ronald Pohl
Gert Jonke was one of the great innovators of late 20th and early 21st Century literature and, for the English-speaking world, each additional translated work is more supporting evidence that Jonke s place is secure. --Josh Maday