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PublisherTwo Lines Press

ISBN-10193188367X

ISBN-139781931883672

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Book TitleOld Rendering Plant

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicLiterary

GenreFiction

AuthorWolfgang Hilbig

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3.9 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.5 in

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Reviews"Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature" -- Lszl Krasznahorkai, recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize and author of Satantango and Seiobo There Below "In Old Rendering Plant , Hilbig finds his way back to poetry's origins, his language penetrates time and space, penetrates the earth itself, dissolves, finds itself once more, and, in incredible beauty and sadness, brings to light almost-forgotten things." -- Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar "Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." -- The New York Times "Out of the ugliness of history and the wasted landscape of his home, he has created stories of disconsolate beauty." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Hilbig's prose is vivid and poetic." -- Publishers Weekly, "Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature" -- László Krasznahorkai, recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize and author of Satantango and Seiobo There Below "In Old Rendering Plant , Hilbig finds his way back to poetry's origins, his language penetrates time and space, penetrates the earth itself, dissolves, finds itself once more, and, in incredible beauty and sadness, brings to light almost-forgotten things." -- Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar "Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." -- The New York Times "Out of the ugliness of history and the wasted landscape of his home, he has created stories of disconsolate beauty." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Hilbig's prose is vivid and poetic." -- Publishers Weekly, "Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature" -- Lszl Krasznahorkai, recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize and author of Satantango and Seiobo There Below "Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." -- The New York Times "Out of the ugliness of history and the wasted landscape of his home, he has created stories of disconsolate beauty." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Hilbig's prose is vivid and poetic." -- Publishers Weekly

SynopsisWhat falsehoods do we believe as children? And what happens when we realize they are lies--possibly heinous ones? In Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history's darkest chapters, immersing readers in the odors and oozings of a butchery that has for years dumped biological waste into a river. It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with the building now turned into an abattoir processing dead animals, he revisits this place and his memories of it, realizing just how much he has missed. Plumbing memory's mysteries while evoking historic horrors, Hilbig gives us a gothic testament for the silenced and the speechless. With a tone indebted to Poe and a syntax descended from Joyce, this suggestive, menacing tale refracts the lost innocence of youth through the heavy burdens of maturity.