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Hedyphagetica
Austryn Wainhouse
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Description for Hedyphagetica
paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 217 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Hedyphagetica is a powerful political satire, a ribald comedy, and a desperate love letter to a woman named Aime?. "Oh my, yes, I am afraid that in the beginning was the word..." So begins the narrator's account of his homeland, Gron, a country whose militaristic and authoritarian government bombs its own people at air shows--to keep them awed--and leads them into pointless and interminable wars to keep them properly motivated Employing all the tools of modernity to achieve a medieval brand of repression, Gron is a grim place. The narrator, attempting a kind of history, tells his story through the ... Read more
Hedyphagetica is a powerful political satire, a ribald comedy, and a desperate love letter to a woman named Aime?. "Oh my, yes, I am afraid that in the beginning was the word..." So begins the narrator's account of his homeland, Gron, a country whose militaristic and authoritarian government bombs its own people at air shows--to keep them awed--and leads them into pointless and interminable wars to keep them properly motivated Employing all the tools of modernity to achieve a medieval brand of repression, Gron is a grim place. The narrator, attempting a kind of history, tells his story through the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
217
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564784674
SKU
V9781564784674
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Ref
99-15
About Austryn Wainhouse
Winner of the National Book Award for translation and a graduate of Harvard University, Austryn Wainhouse left the United States for Paris partway through graduate work at the University of Iowa. He has worked in France as an editor and translator ever since. He was the first to translate the Marquis de Sade, including de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, ... Read more
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