Georgi Gospodinov

The Physics of Sorrow: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Rodel, Angela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, from an essential voice in world literature. Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature • Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation and the Strega Europeo

Published a decade before his International Booker Prizewinning Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow has become an underground cult classic. Finding strange solace in the myth of the Minotaur, a man named Georgi reconstructs the story of his life like a labyrinth, meandering through the past to find the melancholy child at the center of it all. With profound wit and empathy, he catalogues curious instances of abandonment, spanning from antiquity to the Anthropocene; recounts scenes of a turbulent boyhood in 1970s Bulgaria, spent mostly in a basement; and charts a bizarre run-in with an eccentric flaneur named Gaustine. Exquisitely translated by Angela Rodel, and exhibiting his signature audacious style, this expansive work affirms Gospodinov as one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists (Dave Eggers).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324094906
• Artikelnr.: 68969237

Autorenporträt

Georgi Gospodinov is one of Bulgaria's most lauded authors. His novel Time Shelter won the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega Europeo, among other prizes.

Inhaltsangabe

Epigraphy
Prologue
The Bread of Sorrow
Against an Abandonment: The Case of M.
The Yellow House
Time Bomb (To Be Opened after the End of the World)
The Green Box
The Buyer of Stories
The Global Autumn
An Elementary Physics of Sorrow
Endings
Epilogue