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Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Orelli (1928- ) is a central figure in Swiss-Italian letters. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, as well as several books of poetry, and has long been active in the cultural sphere of the Ticino. In 1997, he was awarded the Schiller Prize. "Walaschek's Dream" is his first novel to appear in English. Klappentext Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, Walaschek s Dream is an encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism and a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and the immortalizing power of art. Zusammenfassung Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled "Alphabet I," which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup. This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli's encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism, where a motley crew of philosopher-peasants as well as historical luminaries like Arthur Schopenhauer, Vincent van Gogh, Viktor Shklovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Klee himself, and the titular footballer Eugene Walaschek all meet at the local tavern and debate the significance of Klee's work. Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, "Walaschek's Dream" is a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and the immortalizing power of art.
