The interim
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Author
Contributors
Cole, Isabel Fargo, 1973- translator.
Published
San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2021].
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm.
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Nederland Community Library - FICTION | Fic Hilbig | On Shelf |
Ridgway Public Library - FICTION | FIC HIL | On Shelf |
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Published
San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2021].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in German as Das Provisorium"--Title page verso.
Description
C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer's block, remorse, and national guilt in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he leaves the monochromatic existence of the GDR for the neon excess of the West. There at least the novelty of his origins grant him easy money and minor celebrity, if also a deflating sense of complacency. With his visa expired and several relationships hanging in the balance, C. travels back and forth, mentally and physically, between two Germanys, contemplating diverging visions of the world and what they mean for people like him: alienated and aimless witnesses to history. This monumental novel from one of the greatest chroniclers of postwar Germany, masterfully translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, interrogates with bitter wit and singular brilliance the detritus of twentieth-century life: addiction, consumerism, God, pay-per-view pornography, selfishness, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century of lies."
Language
Translated form the German.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hilbig, W., & Cole, I. F. (2021). The interim . Two Lines Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007 and Isabel Fargo Cole. 2021. The Interim. Two Lines Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007 and Isabel Fargo Cole. The Interim Two Lines Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hilbig, Wolfgang, and Isabel Fargo Cole. The Interim Two Lines Press, 2021.
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