: Peter Weiss
: Conversation of the Three Wayfarers
: New Directions
: 9780811231640
: 1
: CHF 22.50
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: Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
: English
: 80
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
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.