Landscape in Concrete (Open Letter Modern Classics) - Softcover

Jakov Lind

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934824143 ISBN 13: 9781934824146

Publisher: OPEN LETTER, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Review:

"One of the most idiosyncratic writers of the twentieth century."

"Landscape in Concrete is essentially a terrifying attempt to test possible clues which will guide man through the contemporary maze."

"It is this Book that Confirms Lind's Stature as an Author of International Importance."

"Jakov was a bad boy. . . . He was a coyote, a trickster. He enjoyed hash and LSD. A wicked smile played around his mouth, while witty aphorisms and deep insights tripped off his lips. He emanated inner strength--and an electric intelligence that we all wanted to emulate." -- Anthony Rudolf

"Sometimes war is all one knows. "Landscape in Concrete" is a novel following one Gauthier Bachmann, an ideal soldier under the Nazi regime. When he is discharged for mental health reasons, he refuses his diagnosis and will do anything to return to the front lines. He quickly becomes and pawn in many Nazi official's actions, in the dark happenings behind the war. "Landscape in Concrete" is a fine novel of world fiction, expertly translated from the original German by Ralph Manheim."-John Burroughs, The Midwest Book Review

"Sometimes war is all one knows. Landscape in Concrete is a novel following one Gauthier Bachmann, an ideal soldier under the Nazi regime. When he is discharged for mental health reasons, he refuses his diagnosis and will do anything to return to the front lines. He quickly becomes and pawn in many Nazi official's actions, in the dark happenings behind the war. Landscape in Concrete is a fine novel of world fiction, expertly translated from the original German by Ralph Manheim."-John Burroughs, The Midwest Book Review

"Jakov was a bad boy. . . . He was a coyote, a trickster. He enjoyed hash and LSD. A wicked smile played around his mouth, while witty aphorisms and deep insights tripped off his lips. He emanated inner strength--and an electric intelligence that we all wanted to emulate."--Anthony Rudolf

About the Author:

Jakov Lind was born in Vienna and survived the Second World War by fleeing into Germany, where he disguised himself as a Dutch deckhand. Regarded in his lifetime as a successor to Beckett and Kafka, Lind was posthumously awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2007.

Ralph Manheim was one of the great translators of the twentieth century. He translated Gunter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, and more. In 1982, PEN American Center created an award for translation in his name.

About this edition

• Publisher: OPEN LETTER
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1934824143
• ISBN 13: 9781934824146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200