Old Man and the Bench

Urs Allemann

ISBN 10: 1628970162 / ISBN 13: 9781628970166

Published by Deep Vellum Publishing Mai 2015, 2015

About this Item

Neuware - 'Originally published in German as Urs Alleman, Der alte Mann und die Bank: Ein Fèunfmonatsgequassel (Vienna:Deuticke, 1993).'--Title page vers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Man and the Bench
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing Mai 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628970162
• ISBN 13: 9781628970166
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 175W x 124H x 13D millimeters 175 millimeters width by 124 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 136 grams

About this title

Synopsis

According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.

About the Authors

Urs Allemann was born in the city of Schlieren, near Zurich, Switzerland, in 1948. From 1986 to 2004 he directed the section of culture and literature of the Swiss journal of Basle (Basler Zeitung). He has published three books of narrative and several works of poetry, including: Fuzzhase (1988), Holder die Polder (2001), sch n, sch n! (2003), and Im Kinde schwirren die Ahnen (2008). He currently lives in Bettingen in Basle.

Patrick Greaney is assistant professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.