Research Catalog

Title

The old man and the bench / Urs Allemann ; translated by Patrick Greaney.

Author

Allemann, Urs.

Publication

• Champaign : Dalkey Archive, 2015.
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

Greaney, Patrick.

Description

114 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

"The title character in The Old Man and the Bench has a contract that requires him to write, and he feels he should focus on his past. Yet instead of childhood reminiscences, the old man dwells on a series of mini-narratives about, for example, a love triangle among concrete towers, a chaste visit by two call girls, and the joint-by-joint cannibalization of his fingers. In the middle of these absurd tales, something like childhood memories appear, only to disappear into the stream of the old man's ramblings. Urs Allemann's virtuosic, lyrical monologue is at once playful and disturbing, recalling Dada, Kafka, and Beckett in its representation of what language can do when it turns against itself and its speaker."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Swiss literature series

Uniform Title

• Alte Mann und die Bank. English
• Swiss literature series.

Alternative Title

Alte Mann und die Bank.

Note

• A novel.
• "Originally published in German as ... Der alte Mann und die Bank: Ein Fünfmonatsgequassel (Vienna: Deuticke, 1993)."--Title page verso.

Call Number

JFC 15-270

ISBN

• 9781628970166
• 1628970162

OCLC

900031662

Author

Allemann, Urs.

Title

The old man and the bench / Urs Allemann ; translated by Patrick Greaney.

Publisher

Champaign : Dalkey Archive, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2014

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Swiss literature series

Swiss literature series.

Added Author

Greaney, Patrick.

Research Call Number

JFC 15-270