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Download ^ Bottom's Dream (German Literature) PDF by * Arno Schmidt eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Bottom's Dream (German Literature) First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. “I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,” Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt’s rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. “I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,” says Bott
| Title | : | Bottom's Dream (German Literature) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628971592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. “I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,” Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt’s rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. “I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,” says Bottom. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires.Since its publication in 1970 Zettel’s Traum/Bottom’s Dream has been regarded as Arno Schimdt’s magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature. Woods.
Drafted into the army in 1940, he served in the artillery at a flak base in Norway until the end of the war. Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) was born in the working-class suburb of Hamburg-Hamm, Germany. His first book, Leviathan, was published in 1949. . Woods won both the 1981 American Book Award and PEN award for his translation of Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold and has published a new translation of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Over
Finnegans Wake meets Freud for a bunch of dirty jokes about Edgar Allan Poe David Auerbach So this monster arrives as the Dalkey Archive book to end all Dalkey Archive books. The invaluable independent Dalkey Press has long been known for publishing monstrous and difficult tomes of literature like Miss Macintosh, My Darling, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) and Women and Men (could we get a reprint on this one please?), but this has got to be *the* echt-Dalkey book, 1500 pages containing over a million words in heavily-addled typography, set in anywhere from two to four columns that poke and intrude upon each other.For all that, it's not as difficult as your typical Dalkey offering, and far easier than Finnegans Wake, which S. Kindle Customer said Excellent for Arno Schmidt fans.. Arno Schmidt may not be to most folks' taste, but I'm a a fan. This text is difficult to parse despite the brave translator's efforts to capture the punning and wordplay, so still barely started on the reading of it. The price is very affordable for such a marvel of typesetting. I do wish the price had been a tad higher and a better binding and better slipcover provided, as the book (a few inches thick at 1500 pages) is a bit wobbly around the spine. That's the only reason i knock it down to Excellent for Arno Schmidt fans. Kindle Customer Arno Schmidt may not be to most folks' taste, but I'm a a fan. This text is difficult to parse despite the brave translator's efforts to capture the punning and wordplay, so still barely started on the reading of it. The price is very affordable for such a marvel of typesetting. I do wish the price had been a tad higher and a better binding and better slipcover provided, as the book (a few inches thick at 1500 pages) is a bit wobbly around the spine. That's the only reason i knock it down to 4 from 5 star.. from 5 star.. Two Stars Wish I could return it. I could use another six draughts.
Mr. Prawer, Times Literary Supplement"A truly witty and innovative writer." -Chicago Tribune"A giant of postwar German literature." -New York Times"Reading Arno Schmidt can be addictive." -Times Literary Supplement. That book is in some sense Schmidt's response to Finnegans Wake; it is a sprawling novel about a brief period, from 4 A.M. to early the next morning, outwardly centered on a discussion of that American father of European modernism, Edgar Allan Poe. S. Then Arno Schmidt will assume his rightful place in modern literature." -Jeremy Alder, New York Times"(A) treasure house of post-Joycean language-games, the projection of a complex and crotchety personality, a unique blend of fiction, conversation pieces and literary criticism, humorous and obsessed, intellectually adventurous and stuffily provincial, polyglot and archetypically German" -S. Written in three columns and published only as a facsimile of an idiosyncratic typograph
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