The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2012 - Gert Jonke's 'Individual and Metamorphosis'

Informationen zum Autor JOHN O'BRIEN also is the author and illustrator of Mother Hubbard's Christmas, which Booklist calls "a yuk-filled read-aloud." He lives in Delran, New Jersey. Klappentext The Review of Contemporary Fiction proudly presents the English language-debut of Austrian master Gert Jonke's absurd, revealing, and groundbreaking autobiographical essay/novella "Individual and Metamorphosis." Zusammenfassung The "Review of Contemporary Fiction" proudly presents the English language-debut of Austrian master Gert Jonke's absurd, revealing, and groundbreaking autobiographical essay/novella "Individual and Metamorphosis." It tells the story of Jonke's life as a writer by citing, examining, and even rewriting texts by authors whose work inspired his own: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort?zar, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Ernst Jandl, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Robert Musil, Peter Weiss, and others.

Product details

• Authors: John (EDT)/ Malin Brien, Gert Jonke, O&apos, John (EDT)/ Malin O'Brien
• Assisted by: John O'Brien (Editor), Vincent Kling (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2013
• EAN: 9781564788931
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-893-1
• No. of pages: 94
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies