Game for Real e-bog
58,12 DKK
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Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literatures best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.The book opens with The Game of Quartering, where an unnamed hero discovers his double. Surely, he reasons, if he has a double, then his double must also have a double too, and s...
E-bog
58,12 DKK
Forlag
Two Lines Press
Udgivet
20 april 2015
Længde
256 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781931883450
Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literatures best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.The book opens with The Game of Quartering, where an unnamed hero discovers his double. Surely, he reasons, if he has a double, then his double must also have a double too, and so on . . . What follows is a grotesquely hilarious, snowballing spree through Paris, where real-life landmarks disintegrate into theaters, puppet shows, and, ultimately, a funeral.Following this, The Game for the Honor of Payback neatly inverts things: instead of a branching, expanding adventure, a man known as Shame embarks on a quest that collapses inward. Slapped by someone he despises, he launches a doomed crusade to return the insult. As the stakes grow ever higher, it seems that Shame will stop at nothing even if he discovers hes chasing his own tail.Blending metaphysical questions with farcical humor, bizarre twists, and acute psychology, The Game for Real is a riveting exploration of who we are and why we cant be so sure we know.