Waltz
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2013
270 pages
978-1-56478-985-3 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1936, and considered one of the most groundbreaking and significant novels written in Catalan, Waltz tells the tale of an idle, introspective, and somewhat oblivious young "man without qualities" as he stumbles through a milieu of civic upheaval and bourgeois tragedy, waltzing from one prospective bride to another, never willing to compromise his ideals, and so never quite becoming an adult. With one foot in the romanticism of Goethe or Kleist, and another in the wildly differing takes on the modern novel provided by Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, respectively, Waltz is an occasionally absurd comedy of indecision and indolence structured in imitation of the dance from which it takes its title.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Dedication
- I. Prelude
- II. Invitation to Waltz
- III. Divertimento
- IV. Waltz
- V. Finale
- Copyright
