Spadework for a Palace Parramatta prison patter: the colourful world of prison slang. Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the ides fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name mr herman melvill is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office"), which itself is just one aspect of his also being "constantly conscious of his connectedness" to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the "drunkard Lowry" and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to "a Serene Paradise of Knowledge." Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but "people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence." And his dream will be "realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day laborer, a spade worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time may I say this? actually a Keeper of the Palace." EAN: 9780811228404 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bcher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 27. 09. 2022 Produktform: Leinen, Gebunden Titel der Reihe: Storybook ND## Autoren: Krasznahorkai, Lszl bersetzung: Batki, John Seitenzahl Blattzahl: 80 Themenberschrift: FICTION Literary~FICTION Short Stories (single author)~FICTION Absurdist Keyword: hungarian; melville; manhattan; madness; apocalyptic; one sentence; long sentence; joy; ode Fachschema: Fiction General Fachkategorie: Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Belletristik: Erzhlungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories Imprint Titels: Storybook ND Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation Lnge: 235 mm Breite: 152 mm Hhe: 12 mm Gewicht: 292 gr Genre: Importe