Old Rendering Plant by Hilbig, Wolfgang

Old Rendering Plant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931883672)

Vendor: Wolfgang Hilbig
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Format: Paperback
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Old Rendering Plant by Hilbig, Wolfgang

Old Rendering Plant

$12.95
Old Rendering Plant by Hilbig, Wolfgang

Old Rendering Plant

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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What falsehoods do we believe as children? And what happens when we realize they are lies--possibly heinous ones? In Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history's darkest chapters, immersing readers in the odors and oozings of a butchery that has for years dumped biological waste into a river. It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with the building now turned into an abattoir processing dead animals, he revisits this place and his memories of it, realizing just how much he has missed. Plumbing memory's mysteries while evoking historic horrors, Hilbig gives us a gothic testament for the silenced and the speechless. With a tone indebted to Poe and a syntax descended from Joyce, this suggestive, menacing tale refracts the lost innocence of youth through the heavy burdens of maturity.

Author: Wolfgang Hilbig
ISBN-10: 193188367X
ISBN-13: 9781931883672
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017
Foreword 10/26/2017
By Wolfgang Hilbig
By Wolfgang Hilbig
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Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) was one of the major German writers to emerge in the postwar era. Though raised in East Germany, he proved so troublesome to the authorities that in 1985 he was granted permission to emigrate west. The author of over 20 books, he received virtually all of Germany's major literary prizes, capped by the 2002 Georg B?hner Prize, Germany's highest literary honor.

Isabel Fargo Cole is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include Boys and Murderers by Hermann Ungar (Twisted Spoon Press, 2006), All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Seagull Books, 2011), The Jew Car by Franz F?mann (Seagull Books, 2013), and The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig. The recipient of a prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Grant in 2013, she is the initiator and co-editor of No-mans-land.org, an online magazine for new German literature in English.

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