Lucifer Unemployed
Autor Aleksander Wat Traducere de Lillian Vallee Cuvânt înainte de Czeslaw Miloszen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 1990
In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe.
The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a mission: what impact can a devil have in a godless time? What is his sorcery in a society far more diablical than the devil himself? Too idealistic for a world full of modern cruelties, the unemployable Lucifer finally finds the only means of guaranteed immortality. In "The Eternally Wandering Jew," steady Jewish conversion to Christianity results in Nathan the Talmudist reigning as Pope Urban IX. The hilarious satire on power, "Kings in Exile," unfolds with the dethroned monarchs of Europe meeting to found their own republic in an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean.
The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a mission: what impact can a devil have in a godless time? What is his sorcery in a society far more diablical than the devil himself? Too idealistic for a world full of modern cruelties, the unemployable Lucifer finally finds the only means of guaranteed immortality. In "The Eternally Wandering Jew," steady Jewish conversion to Christianity results in Nathan the Talmudist reigning as Pope Urban IX. The hilarious satire on power, "Kings in Exile," unfolds with the dethroned monarchs of Europe meeting to found their own republic in an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810108400
ISBN-10: 0810108402
Pagini: 123
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Translated
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810108402
Pagini: 123
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Translated
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
ALEKSANDER WAT (1900–1967) was a Polish poet, writer and art theoretician, one of the precursors of Polish futurism movement in early 1920s.
CZESLAW MILOSZ received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980.
LILLIAN VALLEE is the translator of the three-volume Diary of Witold Gombrowicz.
CZESLAW MILOSZ received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980.
LILLIAN VALLEE is the translator of the three-volume Diary of Witold Gombrowicz.
Cuprins
Foreword by Czesłas Miłosz
The Eternally Wandering Jew
Kings in Exile
The History of the Last Revolution in England
Has Anyone Seen Pigeon Street?
April Fool
Hermaphrodite
Long Live Europe!
Tom Bill, Heavyweight Champion
Lucifer Unemployed
The Eternally Wandering Jew
Kings in Exile
The History of the Last Revolution in England
Has Anyone Seen Pigeon Street?
April Fool
Hermaphrodite
Long Live Europe!
Tom Bill, Heavyweight Champion
Lucifer Unemployed
Recenzii
"Wat . . . was a central figure in Polish modernism and this—his 1927 book of speculative stories—comes as a revelation. . . . The style is quick, syncopated, and piquant (excellently rendered by Vallee), with Wat capable of richer tones as well. . . . Wat's stories [indicate] the special nature of the Mitteleuropisch Expressionism that flourished—however briefly—in a literature we still know so little about." —Kirkus Reviews
"One of the most original, fascinating, and curious figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, Wat left behind an oeuvre which is salient, artistically accomplished, and influential . . . with its shifting narrative perspectives, wild imagination combining the trivial and the fantastic, and highly 'subjective' lyrical style, [Lucifer Unemployed] is a unique and important contribution to the twentieth-century evolution of the short story and fiction and general." —Stanisław Baranczak
Descriere
In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe.