TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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.
AB  - "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.
T1  - The system of Vienna :from Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square : a novel /
DA  - 2009.
CY  - Champaign [Ill.] :
AU  - Jonke, Gert,
AU  - Kling, Vincent,
CN  - PT2670.O5
CN  - PT2670.O5
PB  - Dalkey Archive Press,
PP  - Champaign [Ill.] :
LA  - eng
PY  - 2009.
N1  - "Originally published in German as Himmelstrasse-Erdbrustplatz oder Das System von Wien by Residenz Verlag, 1999."
N1  - Translated from German
ID  - 349753
SN  - 9781564785503 (pbk.)
SN  - 1564785505 (pbk.)
TI  - The system of Vienna :from Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square : a novel /
ER  -