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Description for Century 21
Paperback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
"Century 21," a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and nineteenth-century romance, reportage and science fiction. At the book's core are two sisters, Ann Kar, a writer and survivor, and Carol, a suicidal artist. Considering herself a lunatic, Carol dreams about escaping from the earth to the moon (luna) and about the moon scholar, a lunar archeologist, who a thousand years after her death, while reconstructing terrestrial life, discovers the traces of her existence, falls in love with her, ... Read more
"Century 21," a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and nineteenth-century romance, reportage and science fiction. At the book's core are two sisters, Ann Kar, a writer and survivor, and Carol, a suicidal artist. Considering herself a lunatic, Carol dreams about escaping from the earth to the moon (luna) and about the moon scholar, a lunar archeologist, who a thousand years after her death, while reconstructing terrestrial life, discovers the traces of her existence, falls in love with her, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780188
SKU
V9781564780188
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Ref
99-15
About Eva Kuryluk
Ewa Kuryluk, a well-known Polish writer, artist, and art historian, has been living in Manhattan since 1981 and writing in English since 1982. She has been the recipient of the General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the Rockefeller Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in ... Read more
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