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Informationen zum Autor Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. His novel Darconville's Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children. Klappentext Seeing Estonia disrobing her was my focus. Alexander Theroux accompanied his wife to Estonia, occasioning thispenetrating examination of a country. Share Theroux's fascination withEstonians' language, manners, and legacy of occupation and subordination as itleads him to a revelatory examination of Estonia's peculiar place in Europeanhistory. All the while, his trademark acrobatic allusions, quotations, anddigressions — which take us from Hamlet through Jean Cocteau to Married... with Children — render his travels as much internaland psychical as they are external and physical. This travelogue of his ninemonths abroad also brims with anecdotes of Theroux's encounters with Estonianpeople and — in some of its most bitterly comedic episodes — hisfellow Americans whom he at times feels more alienated from than the frosty,humorless Europeans. Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery is as bitingand satirical as it is witty and urbane: as curious and lyrical as it is brashand irreverent.
