Out of the Line of Fire - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140110259 ISBN 13 : 9780140110258

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

THIS BOOK IS SET IN HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, AND CONCERNS THE LIFE OF WOLFI, A PRIDIGY AND A STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY. WHEN WOLFI BEGINS RELATING DETAILS ABOUT HIS FAMILY THINGS ARE A LITTLE STRANGE FROM THE START - FROM HIS FTHER WHO IS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ IN AUSTRIA TO HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO PAYS FOR HIS FIRST SEXUAL INITIATION WITH THE PROSTITUTE ANDREA. ALL, HOWEVER, IS NOT AS IT APPEARS AND GRADUALLY, AS THE NOVEL UNFOLDS, ONE BEGINS TO WONDER WHAT IN FACT IS FACT AND WHAT IN FICTION IS FICTION. THE READER IS LED THROUGH A STRANGE AND EROTIC MAZE, A MAZE WHICH QUESTIONS THE VERY NATURE OF HOW WE READ AND WHAT OUR CONCEPTIONS OF THE LITERARY IMAGINATION ARE ALL ABOUT UNTIL WE ARRIVE AT THE FINAL CATASTROPHIC TRUTH. IF EVER SUSAN SONTAG'S PLEA FOR AN EROTICS OF LITERATURE NEEDED AN ANSWER, THEN THIS IS IT.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Wolfi, a brilliant young philosophy student, begins recounting his life - from his inquisitorial father and passionate mother, to his eccentric grandmother who paid for his sexual initiation with the beautiful Andrea - we are lured into a mysterious and erotic maze. But what in fact is fact, and what in fiction is fiction? A brilliantly seductive classic, Mark Henshaw's Out of the Line of Fire was the literary sensation of the year when it was first published, in 1988. With a new introduction by The Australian's literary editor, Stephen Romei.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140110259
• ISBN 13: 9780140110258
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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