The system of Vienna : from Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square : a novel / by Gert Jonke ; translated and with an afterword by Vincent Kling.
Jonke, Gert, 1946-2009.; Kling, Vincent, 1942-
2009
PT2670.O5 H5613 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The system of Vienna : from Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square : a novel / by Gert Jonke ; translated and with an afterword by Vincent Kling.
Author Jonke, Gert, 1946-2009.
Uniform Title Himmelstrasse-Erdbrustplatz oder Das System von Wien. English
ISBN 9781564785503 (pbk.)
1564785505 (pbk.)
Imprint Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 125 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number PT2670.O5 H5613 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 833/.914
Summary "The System of Vienna details Gert Janke's travels through Vienna by streetcar, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progresses - and meanwhile moving not just from trolley-stop to trolley-stop, but through life as well: from innocence to disillusionment, birth to death. Ionke meets a paranoiac fish wholesaler who believes he is directing all of Austrian politics from his little stall, a stamp collector in such deadly earnest he hopes to be appointed to a professorship in philately, and a compulsive talker who has developed a rigorous economic philosophy out of the most common objects to be found in a Vienna neighborhood. Slowly increasing the comic and fantastic elements in his story until they overwhelm all pretense to autobiography - culminating in a strangely touching love scene between Ionke and a caryatid - The System of Vienna reminds us that the very act of describing a life turns it into fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Note "Originally published in German as Himmelstrasse-Erdbrustplatz oder Das System von Wien by Residenz Verlag, 1999."
Translated from German
Added Author Kling, Vincent, 1942-
Series Austrian literature series.
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Autumn Mist - Rose Hill
Stamp Collector in the Vienna Woods
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In the Course of My Courses - From Neuwaldegg to Schottentor
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Jorger Strasse Prelude and Hernals Beltway Fugue
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