Two Novels: The Stony Heart and B/Moondocks [World Literature Series]

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9781564781703
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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1564781704
ISBN-13
9781564781703
eBay Product ID (ePID)
653126

Product Key Features

Book Title
Two Novels : the Stony Heart and B/Moondocks
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / German, General
Publication Year
1997
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Author
Arno. Schmidt
Book Series
World Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-023296
Reviews
A fascinating work . . . Here's hoping that translator Woods is at work on the rest of Schmidt's demanding [and] rewarding oeuvre.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Series Volume Number
Vol. 4
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in sharp contrast to one another, the first belonging to his early, more realistic phase, and the second introducing his later, more experimental phase. But the hairs are not worth splitting., This is the last in a four volume edition of the early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction.Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in sharp contrast to one another, the first belonging to his early, more realistic phase, and the second introducing his later, more experimental phase. But the hairs are not worth splitting.Taking place in 1954, "The Stony Heart" concerns a man gathering documents for a study of a historian, and in the course of his search he gets involved with a woman who is married to a man who is involved with a woman, etc. "B/Moondocks" has parallel stories, one played out in a rural German town in the late 1950s, and the other on the moon in 1980 (the book was first published in German in 1960).At the heart of both is an absolute commitment to two things: freeing language from its commonplace prose functions, and Schmidt's ongoing savage attack on the German mind-set and attitude that gave us two world wars in this century., This is the last in a four volume edition of the early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction. Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in sharp contrast to one another, the first belonging to his early, more realistic phase, and the second introducing his later, more experimental phase. But the hairs are not worth splitting. Taking place in 1954, "The Stony Heart" concerns a man gathering documents for a study of a historian, and in the course of his search he gets involved with a woman who is married to a man who is involved with a woman, etc. "B/Moondocks" has parallel stories, one played out in a rural German town in the late 1950s, and the other on the moon in 1980 (the book was first published in German in 1960). At the heart of both is an absolute commitment to two things: freeing language from its commonplace prose functions, and Schmidt's ongoing savage attack on the German mind-set and attitude that gave us two world wars in this century.
LC Classification Number
PT2638.M453A15 1994

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