Old Man and the Bench (Swiss Literature)
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$13.95
Publication Date: May 26th, 2015
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN:
9781628970166
Pages:
105
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Description
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.
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