Joseph Walser's Machine
Will be published approx. on 26. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-56478-677-7 (ISBN)
Description
Continuing Tavares's award-winning "Kingdom" series (begun in "Jerusalem," winner of the Saramago Prize), "Joseph Walser's Machine" recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world's most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mysterious machine on a factory floor. Yet all of Joseph Walser's routines are violently disrupted when his city is occupied by an invading army, leaving him faced with political intrigues, marital discord, and finally, one last, catastrophic confrontation with his beloved machine.
Reviews / Votes
"Tavares has no right to be writing so well at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!"--Jos SaramagoMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-677-7 (9781564786777)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Gonçalo Tavares
Joseph Walser's Machine
E-Book
03/2012
1st Edition
Columbia University Press
€13.49
Available for download
Persons
Gonc?alo M. Tavares was born in 1970. He has published numerous books since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes in a very short time, including the Saramago Prize in 2005. A. G. Porta was born in Barcelona in 1954. He gained prominence in the Spanish literary world when he won the Ambito Literario de Narrativa Prize in 1984 for a novel written with Roberto Bolano. After a silence of over ten years-which Bolano claimed that Porta spent reading and rereading Joyce-he began publishing novels to widespread critical acclaim.