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An Unending Landscape
Toomas Vint
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Description for An Unending Landscape
Paperback. Translator(s): Dickens, Eric. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
"An Unending Landscape" is a subtle, humorous, mind-bending novel about the origins and fates of three different manuscripts. The first is an autobiographical sketch concerning an Estonian writer's old schoolmate, now a government official, who is trying to recruit our narrator to spy on his fellow citizens. The second, composed by the hero of the first, is a fictionalized (and far more exciting) version of these same experiences. Finally, the self-aggrandizing hero of this second story decides to write his own novel, which seems on one hand to be a plagiarism of Chekhov's "Lady With the Lapdog," and on the ... Read more
"An Unending Landscape" is a subtle, humorous, mind-bending novel about the origins and fates of three different manuscripts. The first is an autobiographical sketch concerning an Estonian writer's old schoolmate, now a government official, who is trying to recruit our narrator to spy on his fellow citizens. The second, composed by the hero of the first, is a fictionalized (and far more exciting) version of these same experiences. Finally, the self-aggrandizing hero of this second story decides to write his own novel, which seems on one hand to be a plagiarism of Chekhov's "Lady With the Lapdog," and on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
347
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787361
SKU
9781564787361
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99-2
About Toomas Vint
Eric Dickens is a translator and reviewer of Estonian and Finnish-Swedish literature. He is currently translating work by the novelists Toomas Vint and Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo.
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