Father's on the Phone With the Flies: A Selection (Seagull Library of German Literature) from Herta Muller
Price per copy:
Lei 80 / € 16,00
incl. VAT: 5% (Lei) / 7% (EUR)
plus Delivery fees
Available
Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 193 Seiten; paperback
Edit year: 08.2022
Publishing House: Seagull Books London Ltd
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9781803090450
An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize.
To create the poems in this collection, Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Müller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Müller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors—the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.
Permalink: https://www.buechercafe.ro/artikel.html?nummer=125946