{"product_id":"traumnovelle-grant-maierhofer-9781916541146","title":"Traumnovelle","description":"\u003cp\u003eUtilizing Wittgenstein, Tarkovsky, and Arthur Schnitzler as models, Grant Maierhofer's \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e explores history as novel, spiraling out from the incident in 1978, when Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski unwittingly stuck his head inside the beam of the U-70 Synchrotron particle accelerator in Protvino. In short, recursive fragments, and interview transcripts, \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e offers a prismatic view extracted from real life, a sequence of text and images documenting an obsession. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grant Maierhofer may be our greatest living novelist of failure. Caught somewhere between the existential perplexities of Beckett and the ontological ones of Kafka-encompassing both of these things, somehow, in a voice that is plaintive, at times hilarious, and deeply American-he approaches something that is nearly religious in its intensity. \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e recasts the terrible story of Anatoli Bugorski, the Russian physicist who survived exposure to a proton beam from a particle accelerator, into something greater and stronger than mere tragedy, something radiant and profoundly illuminating. As with everything Maierhofer writes, it is a joy to be alive to read it.\" -- Matthew Specktor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tonically discomforting, brain-stretching, virtuosic reimagination of one man's unprecedented horror, rendered in ultravivid, surpassingly poetic prose, Grant Maierhofer's \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e is work of gutsy and triumphant originality.\" -- Garielle Lutz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I read Grant Maierhofer's philosophic, photonic \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e on a trans-oceanic flight, in a sheer dome of electromagnetic radiation, and it reminded me that each sentence is a dream hypothesis which, at its terminus, makes way for the next dream. We call a sequence of such luminous failures a galaxy, a line of inquiry, a novel, a life.\" -- Joyelle McSweeney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant Maierhofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916541143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916541146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Erratum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.44d","brand":"Grant Maierhofer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906974929151,"sku":"9781916541146","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3512b17c-1701-4542-836a-cbfb76d60f87.jpg?v=1748771939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traumnovelle-grant-maierhofer-9781916541146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}