Palimpsests - Softcover

Lun, Aleksandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567926525 ISBN 13: 9781567926521

Verlag: David R. Godine, 2019

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An absurdly dark tragi-comedy of language and literature. Czeslaw Przesnicki is an Eastern-European immigrant writer who survived the long toilet paper lines of communist Poland, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary community for his forays into novel-writing in their native tongue. In The Palimpsests, we find him languishing in a Belgium asylum (a country, we are persistently reminded, that has had no government for the past year), undergoing Bartlebian therapy to strip away his knowledge of any language that is not Polish, his native tongue.
Despite, or perhaps because of, its absurdity, The Palimpsests (originally written in Spanish by Polish writer Aleksandra Lun) is characterized by an unquestionable timeliness, relevant to today's discussions on immigration, senses of cultural belonging and ownership, and personal relationships to language, complicated and simple, adopted and native. Peppered with appearances by Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and of course, Przesnicki's former lover Ernest Hemingway, it is the perfect book for lovers of the art of writing.

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Aleksandra Lun left Poland at age 19, financed her studies in languages and literature in Spain by working at a casino, and now lives in Belgium. She has translated work from English, French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and Romanian. Her first novel The Palimpsests, was written in Spanish and first published in France, where it garnered critical acclaim.

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Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, has survived long Soviet toilet paper lines, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary community for his forays into novel-writing in their native tongue. In The Palimpsests, Aleksandra Lun's stunning debut novel, we find him languishing in a Belgium asylum (a country, we are persistently reminded, that has had no government for the past year!), undergoing Bartlebian therapy to strip away his knowledge of any language that is not Polish, his native tongue.

Despite or perhaps because of its absurdity (by turns comic and tragic), The Palimpsests is characterized by an unquestionable timeliness, relevant to today's discussions about immigration, senses of cultural belonging and ownership, and personal relationships to language, complicated and simple, adopted and native. Peppered with darkly comic cameos from famous writers like Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and of course, Przesnicki's former lover Ernest Hemingway, it is the perfect book for lovers of language and the act of writing. Originally written in Spanish by Polish writer Aleksandra Lun, The Palimpsests has been expertly translated into English by Elizabeth Bryer.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: David R. Godine
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1567926525
• ISBN 13: 9781567926521
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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