Volatile Texts: Us Two

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse, Dalkey Archive Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Zsuzsanna Gahse ISBN: 9781628972191
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication: February 4, 2017
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Language: English
Author: Zsuzsanna Gahse
ISBN: 9781628972191
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication: February 4, 2017
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.

More books from Dalkey Archive Press

Cover of the book Gestures by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Procession of Shadows by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Teethmarks on My Tongue by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Warrenpoint by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book I Am Istanbul by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Lily la Tigresse by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book In the Penny Arcade by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Angel Station by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Bowstring by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Leningrad by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Juice! by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Zsuzsanna Gahse
Cover of the book Netanya by Zsuzsanna Gahse
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy