Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection by Müller, Herta

Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781803090450)

Vendor: Herta M?ler
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection by Müller, Herta

Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection

$14.50
Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection by Müller, Herta

Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection

$14.50
Format: Paperback
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An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize.

To create the poems in this collection, Herta M?ler cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of M?ler's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. M?ler takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors--the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, M?ler renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.

Author: Herta M?ler
ISBN-10: 1803090456
ISBN-13: 9781803090450
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2022
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Herta M?ler
By Herta M?ler
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Herta M?ler was born in a German-speaking community in western Romania in 1953. She published her first collection of short stories in 1982. In 1987, she left Romania for West Berlin, where she continued to write and publish. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Thomas Cooper has translated works of poetry and prose in German and Hungarian by many celebrated contemporary authors.

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