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Offering for the Dead by Hans E. Nossack (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMarsilio Publishers
ISBN-100941419290
ISBN-139780941419291
eBay Product ID (ePID)415103
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleOffering for the Dead
Number of Pages150 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicPsychological
GenreFiction
AuthorHans E. Nossack
Book SeriesEridanos Library
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-085935
TitleLeadingAn
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal833/.914
SynopsisHans Erich Nossack's work is a link between the titans of early 20th-century German fiction - Mann, Musil and Broch - and the later generation of Boll and Grass. An Offering for the Dead is a small, hard gem set in the crown of that tradition. "It was raining again", the narrator of this haunting novel begins. He has survived some unmentionable, perhaps worldwide cataclysm - a biblical flood? nuclear war? - that has stripped him of his memory and most everything else. A woman's room, a notebook, a mirror, her comb - these artifacts in a void are all that remain: his first clues to the past, his own and the world's. His errant musings, reminiscent of the guilt-driven wanderings of Orestes, gradually piece together a history he must both remember and create in order to regain his identity, and, like Noah, repopulate a world in which he may be the only survivor. In a delicately allusive prose that resonates with overtones of man's ancient past and darkly apocalyptic warnings, Nossack, like Joyce andProust before him, exposes the mythical undercurrents of contemporary life. Past, present and future blend into an eternal return of archetypal figures whose stories transform human history into a timeless parable of creative memory and immemorial destruction.
LC Classification NumberPT2627.O759N3813
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