Gert Jonke, Author, Vincent Kling, Translator , trans. from the Austrian by Vincent Kling. Dalkey Archive $12.95 (125p) ISBN 978-1-56478-550-3
In these reconstituted, previously published stories, late experimental author Jonke (1946–2009) deploys a literary alter ego to take readers on a tortuous, playful journey through memories of Vienna, the author and hero's native city....
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Gert Jonke, Author, Johannes W. Vazulik, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (131p) ISBN 978-1-56478-048-5
The traditional regional novel celebrating simple rural living is gleefully subverted in this experimental fiction, originally published in Germany in 1969, by Austrian writer Jonke. Alternating mathematically precise descriptions with dreamlike...
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Gert Jonke, Author, Jean M. Snook, Translator , trans. from the German by Jean M. Snook. Dalkey Archive $12.95 (149p) ISBN 978-1-56478-501-5
Austrian author and playwright Jonke addresses a host of existential questions through a cast of vaudevillian compatriots in this slim, beautifully written volume. When narrator Fritz, a self-loathing, depressive alcoholic composer, arrives early to
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Gert Jonke, trans. from the German by Jean M. Snook, Dalkey Archive, $14.95 paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-56478-526-8
In a dense existential journey that challenged the patience of his translator, late Austrian novelist Jonke (1946–2009) explores the disintegration of self. The unnamed narrator, a composer, wakes up one day in a psychiatric hospital room shared by...
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