El hombre aparece en el holoceno (Heroes Modernos) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Frisch, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492837233 ISBN 13: 9788492837236

Publisher: Ediciones Alpha Decay, 2014

Synopsis

Isolated from the world in his Canton of Ticino home, at the mercy of the weather and in the shelter of his diminishing physical strenth, already in decline and heading toward the abyss, Mr. Geiser confronts his loneliness and boredom with meditations on the most minute daily occurences in his life: the regularity of the mail bus, the minestrone soup that needs to be heated, the blonde butcher, and his elderly cat that no longer hunts mice. To hold on to the memory of those fragments that make up an entire life and that constitute his footprints in history, he covers the walls with pages from old dictionaries and encyclopedias, which remind him what the first settlers in the Alps were like or how to draw the golden section—things that should not be forgotten. Mr. Geiser faces the cycle of life and his own mortality, noting the insignificance of man as his memory slowly begins to fade.

About this title

About the Author

Max Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist whose work includes An Answer from the Silence, Bluebeard, I'm Not Stiller, and Montauk.

Review

"This luminous parable of indeterminate purport is also a masterpiece."  —New York Times, on the English-language edition

"Haunting, sad, yet lovely . . . an important, disturbing, and powerful novel that deserves attention."  —Chicago Sun-Times, on the English-language edition

"Poetry of the mind rather than the senses—sparse and austere, with every detail chosen for its resonances . . . a small book but a major achievement."  —Washington Post Book World, on the English-language edition

About this edition

• Publisher: Ediciones Alpha Decay
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 8492837233
• ISBN 13: 9788492837236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136