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Adventures In Immediate Irreality
Max Blecher
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Description for Adventures In Immediate Irreality
Paperback. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 202 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.
Product Details
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
157g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811217606
SKU
V9780811217606
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99-50
About Max Blecher
Max Blecher, born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Romania, contracted tuberculosis of the spine at 19, and spent the rest of his life in hospitals. Despite his illness, he wrote steadily and carried on an intense correspondence with many, including André Breton, André Gide, and Martin Heidegger. He died at the age of 28. Working with great Czech, ... Read more
Reviews for Adventures In Immediate Irreality
"When you read his books it's hard to believe your eyes. The author of this masterpiece was a twenty-five-year-old already weakened by disease, but Blecher's words don't merely describe the objects—they dig their talons into the things and hoist them high."
Herta Müller "Blecher has often been compared to Kafka (and not without reason), but the strongest connection, however, ... Read more
Herta Müller "Blecher has often been compared to Kafka (and not without reason), but the strongest connection, however, ... Read more