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Vain art of the fugue
- Title
- Vain art of the fugue / Dumitru Tsepeneag ; translation by Patrick Camiller.
- Author
- Țepeneag, Dumitru, 1937-
- Publication
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PC840.3.E67 Z3313 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Camiller, Patrick.
- Description
- 140 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Clutching a bouquet of flowers, hurrying to catch his bus, and arguing with the driver once he's on, a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman. This sequence of events occurs and recurs in remarkably different variations in Vain Art of the Fugue. In one version, the bus driver ignores the traffic signals and is killed in the ensuing crash.
- In another, the protagonist is thrown off the bus, and as he chases after it, a crowd of strangers joins him in the pursuit. As the book unfolds, the protagonist, his lovers, and the people he meets become increasingly vivid and complex figures in the crowded Bucharest cityscape. Themes, conflicts, and characters interweave and overlap, creating a book that is at once chaotic and perfectly composed.
- Series Statement
- Eastern European literature series
- Uniform Title
- Zadarnică e arta fugii. English
- Eastern European literature series
- Alternative Title
- Zadarnică e arta fugii.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Translations
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- Note
- Translated from the Romanian.
- ISBN
- 9781564784216
- 1564784215
- LCCN
- 2006016854
- OCLC
- ocm69331961
- 69331961
- SCSB-8859673
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library