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“I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,†says Bottom. “I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,†Arno Schmidt might have said.
Schmidt’s rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds.
First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded.
As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods.
In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires. Since its publication in 1970 Zettel’s Traum/Bottom’s Dream has been regarded as Arno Schimdt’s magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature.
Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E.
Woods.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1496 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781628971590
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1496 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781628971590
