Werner Kofler Livres

Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and "several typewriters of various calibers," Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own. "Art must destroy reality," he trumpets, yet, in the spirit of his "beloved Beckett," each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly, angrily on. The first English translation of a central figure in Austrian fiction, At the Writing Desk is a battle cry against every cultural and literary status quo.

Werner Kofler, ein bedeutender Prosaist und Satiriker Österreichs, setzt sich mit seinem unverwechselbaren Stil kritisch mit der Welt auseinander. In dieser Ausgabe sind seine Prosastücke aus "Am Schreibtisch", "Hotel Mordschein" und "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" erstmals in einem Band vereint.