The Golden Age
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The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text--but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.
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The Golden Age, Michal Ajvaz, Andrew Oakland
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2010
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Très bon
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- 12,39 €
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- Titre
- The Golden Age
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Michal Ajvaz, Andrew Oakland
- Éditeur
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN10
- 1564785785
- ISBN13
- 9781564785787
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Voyage, Littérature tchèque, États-Unis, Cadeaux pour les dames, Science-fiction fantasy, Cadeaux pour les messieurs, République tchèque, 21e siècle, Réalisme magique, Îles, Fantastique, Civilisation occidentale, Conflit des civilisations et des cultures, Romans absurdes
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- The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text--but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.