Research Catalog

Title

The Lamentations of Zeno / Ilija Trojanow ; translated by Philip Boehm.

Author

Trojanow, Ilija

Publication

• London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Boehm, Philip

Description

viii, 164 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Bavarian glaciologist Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to its rapid degradation. In his early sixties, Zeno mourns the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his loveless marriage, and the crumbling of his increasingly irrelevant career (he compares giving lectures on glaciers to "teaching veterinarians who had specialized in the subject of dinosaurs.") The desperate Zeno hatches a horrifying plan, and driven to the brink, he is convinced that his only option is to shake his fellow passengers out of their complacency and send a wake-up call to the world. With poignant, playful prose, The Lamentations of Zeno is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting tale that looks at the greatest challenge of our age from a uniquely human angle"--

Uniform Title

EisTau. English

Alternative Title

EisTau.

Subject

• Glaciologists > Fiction
• Glaciers > Fiction
• Glaciers
• Glaciologists

Genre/Form

• Political fiction.
• Fiction.

Note

• "First published as EisTau" -- copyright page
• Translated from the German.

Call Number

JFD 16-3467

ISBN

• 9781784782191
• 178478219X

LCCN

2015039884

OCLC

913844935

Author

Trojanow, Ilija, author.

Title

The Lamentations of Zeno / Ilija Trojanow ; translated by Philip Boehm.

Publisher

London ; New York : Verso, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Added Author

Boehm, Philip, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-3467