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The Old Man and the Bench. A Novel.
Allemann, Urs; Greaney, Patrick
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Description for The Old Man and the Bench. A Novel.
Paperback. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 177 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
Number of Pages
106
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970166
SKU
V9781628970166
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Ref
99-15
About Allemann, Urs; Greaney, Patrick
Urs Allemann was born in the city of Schlieren, near Zurich, Switzerland, in 1948. From 1986 to 2004 he directed the section of culture and literature of the Swiss journal of Basle (Basler Zeitung). He has published three books of narrative and several works of poetry, including: Fuzzhase (1988), Holder die Polder (2001), sch n, sch n! (2003), and Im ... Read more
Reviews for The Old Man and the Bench. A Novel.
Stunning, exquisite, perfect, and difficult... makes literature that pre-dates it seem deprived. Dennis Cooper