At the Writing Desk

Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and "several typewriters of various calibers," Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own. "Art must destroy reality," he trumpets, yet, in the spirit of his "beloved Beckett," each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly, angrily on. The first English translation of a central figure in Austrian fiction, At the Writing Desk is a battle cry against every cultural and literary status quo --

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

Dalkey Archive Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

142

ISBN

9781628970043

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata