Adventures In Immediate Irreality - Softcover

Blecher, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811217604 ISBN 13: 9780811217606

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015

Synopsis

Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.

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About the Authors

Max Blecher, born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Romania, contracted tuberculosis of the spine at 19, and spent the rest of his life in hospitals. Despite his illness, he wrote steadily and carried on an intense correspondence with many, including André Breton, André Gide, and Martin Heidegger. He died at the age of 28.

Working with great Czech, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German,  and Dutch authors, Michael Henry Heim―one of America’s greatest translators―won many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and the PEN Translation Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811217604
• ISBN 13: 9780811217606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128