The Quest for Dr. U: Or a Solitary Mirror in Which the Day Reflects

The Quest for Dr. U: Or a Solitary Mirror in Which the Day Reflects image
ISBN-10:

0947757562

ISBN-13:

9780947757564

Edition: No Edition Stated
Released: Jan 01, 1993
Publisher: Atlas Pr
Format: Paperback, 115 pages
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Description:

Artmann, born in 1921, is one of the most remarkable experimental writers of his generation. An Austrian, in the 1950s he was the founder of The Vienna Group with Rühm, Bayer, Wiener and Achleitner. The group’s black romanticism allied with a linguistic scepticism partly derived from Wittgenstein had a great influence on German letters. The Quest for Dr. U is like all Artmann’s works: protean, spanning and subverting all genres (detective fiction, romantic novels, heroic poetry, dada related experiment). Its hero pursues the ghastly Dr. Unspeakable, an ultimate villain, across continents, through situations alternately bizarre and commonplace, always enmeshed in ways of writing text. Dr. U remains a mystery, perhaps he is "not I": a wonderful modernist novel, humorous and entertaining to boot.


























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