Metamorphosis - Couverture souple

Nufer, Doug

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944697683 ISBN 13 : 9781944697686

Editeur : Sagging Meniscus Press, 2018

Synopsis

Fiction. In METAMORPHOSIS, Doug Nufer first metamorphoses The Metamorphosis, Kafka's famous story, by subjecting a composite English translation of Kafka's full text to anagrammatic transformations that carefully retain the semantic outline of the original, but submerge it into the bubbling stew of zany detail that emerges from Nufer's richly inventive, often hilarious, and strangely beautiful wordplay. Then he turns his attention to an iconic excerpt from the beginning of the German text, rendering it into a dizzyingly diverse series of shapes and effects by various technical means in a virtuosic demonstration reminiscent of Queneau's Exercises in Style. I wonder where my project belongs, Nufer writes in an afterword; Maybe the appeal of venturing into a maze of translations and other constraints is analogous to the appeal a traveling salesman living with his parents and sister at the turn of the last century might have felt when, at the end of another awful day of work, he took up his needles to play.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Doug Nufer is the author of the poetry collections WE WERE WEREWOLVES (Make Now, 2008), The Dammed (ubu.com, 2011), and Lounge Acts (Insert Blanc, 2013). His novels include METAMORPHOSIS (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2018), Lifeline Rule (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015), BY KELMAN OUT OF PESSOA (Les Figues, 2011), The Mudflat Man/The River Boys (soultheft records, 2006), On the Roast (Chiasmus, 2004), NEGATIVELAND (Autonomedia, 2004), and Never Again (Black Square, 2004). He sells wine in Seattle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sagging Meniscus Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944697683
• ISBN 13: 9781944697686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible