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The Weight of Things (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989760775)
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x"A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma." --Kirkus Reviews
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel--awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978--she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts so complicated that her publisher had to print them straight from her original documents. A project as brilliant as it is ambitious and as bizarre as it is brilliant, it earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce no less than Henry Darger, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald. Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.
Author: Marianne Fritz
ISBN-10: 0989760774
ISBN-13: 9780989760775
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2015
New York Times Book Review 12/13/2015 pg. 46
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel--awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978--she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts so complicated that her publisher had to print them straight from her original documents. A project as brilliant as it is ambitious and as bizarre as it is brilliant, it earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce no less than Henry Darger, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald. Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.
Author: Marianne Fritz
ISBN-10: 0989760774
ISBN-13: 9780989760775
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2015
New York Times Book Review 12/13/2015 pg. 46
By Marianne Fritz
xMarianne Fritz (1948-2007) was an Austrian novelist. Her first book, The Weight of Things, marked the beginning of an ambitious cycle of novels with the overarching title of Festung, or "The Fortress," comprising Das Kind der Gewalt und die Sterne der Romani, Dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst, and the gargantuan Naturgemäﾟ, the third volume of which she was preparing at the time of her death. Adrian Nathan West is a writer and literary translator living in Spain. His criticism has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other publications. He has translated books from German, Catalan, and Spanish, including Jean Am駻y's Charles Bovary, Country Doctor, which is published by NYRB Classics, and Pere Gimferrer for NYRB Poets. His debut novel, My Father's Diet, was published in early 2022.
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