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The Country Road: Stories
Ullman, Regina; Beals, Kurt
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Description for The Country Road: Stories
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set in the Swiss countryside, the archaic and the modern collide, and "sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks." this delicate but fragile beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Ullmann her unique voice.
Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set in the Swiss countryside, the archaic and the modern collide, and "sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks." this delicate but fragile beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Ullmann her unique voice.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811220057
SKU
V9780811220057
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99-15
About Ullman, Regina; Beals, Kurt
Admired by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, Regina Ullmann became famous with the 1921 publication of this collection. After a difficult life (“I went by the detour instead of by the way”), she died in 1961. In 2010 Kurt Beals was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 ... Read more
Reviews for The Country Road: Stories
"A pure poetic talent: everything is full of mystery."
Hermann Hesse "To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it."
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann "Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius."
Robert Musil "Her voice is ... Read more
Hermann Hesse "To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it."
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann "Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius."
Robert Musil "Her voice is ... Read more