Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions - Softcover

Wolf, Ror

 
9781934824702: Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1934824704 ISBN 13: 9781934824702
Verlag: Open Letter Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Working in the traditions of Robert Walser, Robert Pinget, and Laurence Sterne, Ror Wolf creates strangely entertaining and condensed stories that call into question the very nature of what makes a story a story. Almost an anti-book, Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions takes as its basis the small, diurnal details of life, transforming these oft-overlooked ordinary experiences of nondescript people in small German villages into artistic meditations on ambiguity, repetition, and narrative.

Incredibly funny and playful, Two or Three Years Later is unlike anything you've ever read, from German or any other language. These stories of men observing other men, of men who may or may not have been wearing a hat on a particular Monday (or was it Tuesday?), are delightful word-puzzles that are both intriguing and enjoyable.

Ror Wolf is an artist, an author of prose and poetry, and a writer of radio plays and 'radio collages'. His writing has earned him many awards, including Radio Play of the Year, the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor, and the Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Jennifer Marquart studied German and translation at the University of Rochester. She has lived, continued her studies, and taught in Cologne and Berlin.

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Ror Wolf is an artist, an author of prose and poetry, and a writer of radio plays and 'radio collages'. His writing has earned him many awards, including Radio Play of the Year, the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor, and the Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Jennifer Marquart studied German and translation at the University of Rochester. She has lived, continued her studies, and taught in Cologne and Berlin.

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TWO OR THREE YEARS LATER: FORTY-NINE DIGRESSIONS

By ROR WOLF, Jennifer Marquart

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Contents

In the Mountains...........................................................3
Neither in Schleiz, nor Anywhere Else in the World.........................4
Various Ways to Lose Peace of Mind.........................................6
Laughter...................................................................7
An Approximately Forty-Year-Old Man........................................8
In a French Kitchen. In a Swiss Lake. In a Berlin Closet...................9
The District Office Employee Outing........................................10
The Current Conditions in Cologne..........................................11
At the Barbershop..........................................................13
Arrival at 15:25...........................................................14
An Instance of Deep Contentment............................................15
A Misfortune in the West, on May 13th......................................16
The Power of Song in Nevada................................................18
An Incident Last September at the Bad Tölz Station Restaurant..............25
Not a Word.................................................................28
One Day, a Thursday, in December...........................................29
An Almost Complete Portrayal of the Conditions in Maybe Waabs..............32
The Laughter of the Sailors................................................33
No Story...................................................................41
On the Edge of the Atlantic Ocean..........................................42
Disclosures from the Field of Crime Fighting...............................43
In Memphis City Hall.......................................................44
At Nightfall...............................................................45
Along the Way into the Deep................................................48
The Next Story.............................................................49
The Mysterious Thimble and the Strange Smoking Pipe........................52
From the Secret Records of a Missing Private Detective, Which Were Found 
in a Shot-Through Briefcase That Had Floated Down the Rhine and Washed Up 
on Shore Near Neuss in the Middle of the Night.............................		53
The Origin and Meaning of Sounds and Habits Which One Usually Doesn't 
Speak of and about Which There Isn't Much to Say...........................		54
Moll.......................................................................55
The Heart of America.......................................................58
Happy Birthday.............................................................60
Herr Korn from Kirn........................................................61
The Rate of Fame...........................................................62
A Glance at Life Last September............................................63
A Visit to the Left Bank of the Rhine with an Unexpected Outcome...........64
An Adventure in an Oberschleißheim Pub.....................................65
A Remark on October 21st 1999..............................................67
Important Remarks on the Basic Movements of Time and Place, of Feet and 
Legs.......................................................................		69
A Little Further Up........................................................71
Everything Else Later......................................................72
The Nature Surrounding Prutz...............................................74
The Pleasure and Pain of Berlin and the Strange Effects of Arctic 
Painting...................................................................		76
A Man Wanted to Leave......................................................79
Awful Words................................................................80
One Day the Door Flew Open.................................................81
A Short Description of a Long Journey......................................82
The Consequences of Human Life in K........................................87
The Penultimate Story......................................................89
The Forty-Ninth Digression: Twelve Chapters from an Exposed Life...........91


CHAPTER 1

In the Mountains


An unknown violinist—a man whose name I wouldn't be able torecall even if I tried—said he'd forgotten, or rather lost his violin, afact he realized upon being asked to play in a tavern in Gletsch. Hethought he might have lost it in Lax on his way through the mountains,where a thick layer of snow had covered the ground. Becauseof the snow he might not have noticed his violin fall out; it could'vefallen out silently, he wouldn't have heard it fall. When he stoppedat a tavern that evening and was encouraged to play a little, he discoveredin that moment that he no longer had a violin. And so heforever remained an unknown violinist.


Neither in Schleiz,nor Anywhere Else in the World

A man who prefers anonymity, a certain X—his name is irrelevant—arrivesone day, one morning, one afternoon ... It's all the samein a city whose name we won't disclose. He does nothing, which iswhat we wanted to report, since what he does do is so insignificantthat that's the only significant thing to say about it. He doesn't weara dark hat, has no umbrella or suitcase. He doesn't have a formalsuit or winter coat. His voice cannot be heard. He asks nothingand answers nothing. The only sound he makes is a short, chokedcry. His head and face aren't entirely hairy, but they're not entirelybare, either. He walks with such infuriating slowness that you canhardly call this movement walking, so we won't. If he contemplatessomething it is without feeling; if he touches something it is withoutreason. I think he is a man without purpose. More often than nothe sits curled up, wrapping himself in his arms with his head buriedbetween his knees, and sleeps—or appears to be sleeping. From timeto time he breaks his silence with a shout that is utterly meaninglessand expresses neither sentiment, nor need. He doesn't know fear, buthe also lacks courage; he doesn't seem to have any friends, but alsoseems impervious to...

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Verlag
Open Letter Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1934824704
ISBN 13 
9781934824702
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
142
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