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Allemann, Urs; Greaney, Patrick (TRN)
Language: English
Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2015
- Softcover
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- Title
- Old Man and the Bench
- Author
- Allemann, Urs; Greaney, Patrick (TRN)
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1628970162
- ISBN 13
- 9781628970166
According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
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About the Author
Patrick Greaney is assistant professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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