A Certain Koslowski
The Director's Cut
2nd Edition
Published on 29. July 2016
Book
Hardback
90 pages
978-1-910345-96-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Is it true,' someone asks, 'that regardless of what one asks you, one always receives a wrong answer?' 'That's right!' says Koslowski.
Koslowski is everyone and no one, a tragic figure who stumbles through life in resigned bewilderment at the trials and bizarre coincidences thrown in his path. These brief prose pieces have a style and attraction all their own, by turns wonderfully surreal and laugh-out-loud funny.
With strange and beautiful illustrations by Hartmut Eing, this new edition, 24 years on, includes brand-new pieces about Koslowski's life, loves and losses, alongside the classic texts from the original edition.
Koslowski swears, 'cross my heart and hope to die,' that many years ago he personally met Huckleberry Finn. 'But he is merely a literary character!' someone protests. 'So am I,' says Koslowski."
Koslowski is everyone and no one, a tragic figure who stumbles through life in resigned bewilderment at the trials and bizarre coincidences thrown in his path. These brief prose pieces have a style and attraction all their own, by turns wonderfully surreal and laugh-out-loud funny.
With strange and beautiful illustrations by Hartmut Eing, this new edition, 24 years on, includes brand-new pieces about Koslowski's life, loves and losses, alongside the classic texts from the original edition.
Koslowski swears, 'cross my heart and hope to die,' that many years ago he personally met Huckleberry Finn. 'But he is merely a literary character!' someone protests. 'So am I,' says Koslowski."
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910345-96-2 (9781910345962)
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Persons
Michael Augustin was born in Lubeck in 1953 and lives with his wife, Sujata Bhatt, in Bremen where he works as a writer and broadcaster with Radio Bremen and directs the international literature festival 'Poetry on the Road'. He has also translated poetry and drama from English and has contributed drawings and collages to literary magazines around the globe. His poems and prose miniatures have been translated into many languages. A substantial selection of his work, Mickle Makes Muckle, translated into English by Sujata Bhatt, is available from Dedalus Press in Dublin.