Diabelli
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Author: Burger, Hermann
In following the tales of these magicians of madness, Swiss author Hermann Burger offers unique confessional accounts of linguistic self-destruction. Chief among them is prestidigitator Grazio Diabelli, who refuses an invitation to perform and instead discourses on the history of escapology as he contemplates his own final and permanent disappearing act. Added to this first English edition is Burger’s tale “The Laughter Artist,” an account of a nameless professional artist of cachinnation.Also waiting in the wings is August Stramm, “pianistic abortion” applying for the post of orchestra minion despite being hard of hearing; and Anatol Zentgraf, private scholar and maniacal reader who is the alleged epicenter of an earthquake.Hermann Burger was a Swiss author, critic and professor. He first achieved fame with his novel Schilten, the story of a mad village schoolteacher who teaches his students to prepare for death. At the end of his life, he was working on the autobiographical tetralogy Brenner, one of the high points of 20th-century German prose.
ISBN 9781962728065. Wakefield Press. pb. 160 pages. 4 b/w ills. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
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In following the tales of these magicians of madness, Swiss author Hermann Burger offers unique confessional accounts of linguistic self-destruction. Chief among them is prestidigitator Grazio Diabelli, who refuses an invitation to perform and instead discourses on the history of escapology as he contemplates his own final and permanent disappearing act. Added to this first English edition is Burger’s tale “The Laughter Artist,” an account of a nameless professional artist of cachinnation.Also waiting in the wings is August Stramm, “pianistic abortion” applying for the post of orchestra minion despite being hard of hearing; and Anatol Zentgraf, private scholar and maniacal reader who is the alleged epicenter of an earthquake.Hermann Burger was a Swiss author, critic and professor. He first achieved fame with his novel Schilten, the story of a mad village schoolteacher who teaches his students to prepare for death. At the end of his life, he was working on the autobiographical tetralogy Brenner, one of the high points of 20th-century German prose.
ISBN 9781962728065. Wakefield Press. pb. 160 pages. 4 b/w ills. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
available