Screen LibraryConversation of the three wayfarers /
"The Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents-the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But a...
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New Directions Publishing Corporation,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
| Series: |
A New Directions paperbook ;
1528 |
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| Summary: |
"The Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents-the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in such a fantastic manner? Weiss's strikingly original prose has an impossibly contained quality, with each sentence doing a perfect double-double backflip before neatly landing. This essential rediscovered work, from the masterful and acclaimed German modernist Peter Weiss, will be a delightful discovery for readers of Kafka, Musil, and Gombrowicz"-- |
| Item Description: |
"Originally published as Das Gespr�ach der drei Gehenden by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1963"--Title page verso. "Translation copyright �1969" -- Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 88 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780811231633 0811231631 |
| Index Number: | PT2685 |
| CLC: | I516.45 |
| Call Number: | I516.45/W432-1 |