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Motley Stones (häftad, eng)

The New York Review of Books,

Motley Stones (häftad, eng)

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The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator''s evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.

For Kafka he was “my fat brother”; Thomas Mann called him “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.” Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of “beetles and buttercups,” the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter can now be seen as a radical experimenter with narrative and a forerunner of nature writing’s darker currentsOne of his best-known works, the novella cycle Motley Stones now appears in its first complete English translation, a rendition that respects the bracing strangeness of the original. In six thematically linked novellas, including the beloved classic “Rock Crystal,” human dramas play out amid the natural cycles of the Alps or the urban rhythms of Vienna—environments so keenly observed that they emerge as the tales’ most indomitable protagonists.

Stifter’s human characters are equally haunting—children braving perils, eccentrics and loners harboring enigmatic torments. “We seek to glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race,” Stifter famously wrote. What he glimpsed, more often than not, was the abyss that lies behind the idyll.

The tension between his humane sensitivity and his dark visions is what lends his writing its heartbreaking power.


Format Häftad Omfång 296 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag The New York Review of Books, Inc Utgivningsdatum 2021-05-04 ISBN 9781681375205

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The New York Review of Books,

Motley Stones (häftad, eng)

269 kr

269 kr

Tidigare lägsta pris:

339 kr

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Fre, 24 jan - mån, 27 jan


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14-dagars öppet köp


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