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Set in a futuristic society, this story relates the horror of living in a world where individuality, true feelings, and authentic experiences do not exist
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BREON MITCHELL is Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the Lilly Library. A Rhodes Scholar, he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Oxford University. His areas of specialization include literary translation, Anglo-German literary relations, literature and the visual arts, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Beckett.
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A detective novel which offers a gripping overview of the purpose and function of poetic fiction in the twenty-first century.
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0811211517
- ISBN 13 9780811211512
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages207
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Book Description Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very nice copy--tight, bright and clean. Publisher's letter laid in. In an unnamed European state in the indefinite but not distant future, a talented ``CIB'' agent (``Central Institute for Biographics'') turns renegade and commits serious violations of protocol. One view of the evidence presents Felix Seyner at the point of resigning, transmitting a lengthy letter that attempts by flattery, cajolery and blackmail to resume an amour with a girlfriend from his leftist student days--and her unfavorable reply. The official investigation has it otherwise; the ``girlfriend'' is Felix's alter ego, Felix may be a murderer, and his record of false trails and ingenious ``hacking'' into CIB's archives may have compromised the institute's integrity. Within this deft Orwellian improvisation on a theme, little can be stated with absolute confidence. What is this CIB: an innocent purveyor of entertainment and social research, or--as is darkly hinted--an organization dedicated to pre-empting the arts and letters and whatever else is left of open society? This fine modernist (and mischievous) novel probes potential directions for state social control as well as the nature and moral position of fiction. Seller Inventory # 003225
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket in brodart, light wear. Usual library markings, including discard stamp. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 210253A
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st US. (1st US) Ex-library, slightly smaller book, fine dark gray cloth, very bright silver lettering on spine, only library signs are remnant of sticker on first front end paper, stamp at bottom of title page: "Hugh Embry Branch." DJ glossy white with illustration of unique building and shadows on front, praise on back from Andre Fischer, Sibylle Cramer, Rainer Ament and others in German publications. (Author is German living in Venezuela) DJ has no library signs, just two creases at bottom back left. Near Fine DJ/Near Very Good book. Seller Inventory # 37815
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition of this translation, incorporating "the author's revisions of the original German text". Originally published in German, in 1989 as *Die Beschattung*.Translated by Breon Mitchell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Martin Grzimek in pencil on the half-title page. Seller Inventory # 523461
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