The Other City
Descripción
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists. The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, "other Prague," overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's Other City--his first novel to be translated into English--is the emblem of all the worlds we are blind to, being caught in our own ways of seeing.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 168 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Dalkey Archive Press |
Fecha de Publicación | 2009-06-11 |
Dimensiones | 7.9" x 5.5" x 0.6" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Acerca del Autor
Ajvaz, Michal
Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing.Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.227 kg |
SKU: | 9781564784919 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 05/01/24 |
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