First, the Raven: A Preface - Couverture souple

Rogoff, Seth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944697446 ISBN 13 : 9781944697440

Editeur : Sagging Meniscus Press, 2017

Synopsis

Fiction. Sy Kirschbaum has spent almost twenty years in Prague translating legendary Czech dissident Jan Horak's samizdat masterpiece, Blue, Red, Gray. On the cusp of finishing, he is called back to his Maine hometown to see his troubled former lover, Ida Fields, now the wife of their childhood friend Gabe Slatky. But before he can see her, Sy must meet with Gabe for an evening at a local bar, an encounter that becomes a test of their old friendship and their dueling accounts of reality. In the conversation that follows, narratives of past and present—of art and life—interweave with perfect inevitability, yet with unpredictable, even shocking consequences, spiraling Sy and Gabe into confusion, doubt, and despair, without quite eroding, perhaps, the possibility of hope. FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE is a quietly yet profoundly radical work, as ingenious as a print by Escher or a Möbius strip: the Reader must glide along its whole immaculately ramified length before realizing how deeply life, despite its unceasing, nearly flawless appearance of normalcy, is upside down.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Seth Rogoff was born in Portland, Maine in 1976. He has translated several works by Franz Kafka, including The Castle (2007). He is currently working on a collection of fictional lectures and a nonfiction book on the politics of dream interpretation. He has been a creative writing Fulbright Fellow in Berlin, where he lived for ten years. Since 2015, he has lived with his wife Jana and their two children in Prague.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sagging Meniscus Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944697446
• ISBN 13: 9781944697440
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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