Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, an
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Author: Alain-Paul Mallard
In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has produced. A masterpiece of the miniature in the tradition of Robert Walser and Fleur Jaeggy, and a tribute to the legacy of Thomas Bernhard, Mallard’s 'imaginary life' offers a celebration of sterility and silence in its appropriately distilled essence.This Austrian writer also crosses paths with fictional and nonfictional protagonists from Hans Magnus Enzensberger to Paul Celan, and writes concise first-person reflections that describe a complicated and sympathetic monster.Writer and filmmaker Alain-Paul Mallard was born in 1970 and raised in Mexico City. He studied Hispanic literature in his native city, and then studied European intellectual history in Toronto. Tempted by silence, he is the author of a short, highly concentrated body of work. His films include L’origine de la tendresse, Évidences and L’adoption.
ISBN 9781939663733. Wakefield Press. pb. 56 pages. 7 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
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In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has produced. A masterpiece of the miniature in the tradition of Robert Walser and Fleur Jaeggy, and a tribute to the legacy of Thomas Bernhard, Mallard’s 'imaginary life' offers a celebration of sterility and silence in its appropriately distilled essence.This Austrian writer also crosses paths with fictional and nonfictional protagonists from Hans Magnus Enzensberger to Paul Celan, and writes concise first-person reflections that describe a complicated and sympathetic monster.Writer and filmmaker Alain-Paul Mallard was born in 1970 and raised in Mexico City. He studied Hispanic literature in his native city, and then studied European intellectual history in Toronto. Tempted by silence, he is the author of a short, highly concentrated body of work. His films include L’origine de la tendresse, Évidences and L’adoption.
ISBN 9781939663733. Wakefield Press. pb. 56 pages. 7 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
available