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- Condition
- Book Title
- Wonder
- Publication Name
- Wonder
- Title
- Wonder
- Translator
- Michael Henry Heim
- Contributor
- Michael Henry Heim (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0980033012
- EAN
- 9780980033014
- ISBN
- 9780980033014
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 08/05/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 6in
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Original Language
- Dutch
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Topic
- Psychological, Literary, Political
- Number of Pages
- 338 Pages
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While exposing the remains of Flemish fascism twenty years after the War, Wonder tracks one man's descent into madness. Victor, a bewildered teacher, pursues a mysterious woman to a castle in a remote village. There he finds himself trapped among a handful of desperate individuals still living out their collaboration with the Nazis. As Victor's sanity begins to crumble, he poses as an expert on their messianic leader, who disappeared at the Russian front but whose return they believe imminent. The rich cadences of the prose and dense emotional texture of characters lost in complex moral labyrinths make Wonder a symphony only Claus could have composed.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
0980033012
ISBN-13
9780980033014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70990577
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wonder
Original Language
Dutch
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
338 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt6410.C553v413 2009
Reviews
Claus rages against the decay of the physical self while desire remains untamed. From the beginning, his poetry has been marked by an uncommon mix of intelligence and passion, given expression in a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible. -J.M. Coetzee While fully aware that such an honorable title can only be used in great exceptions in Flemish literature, I would call Wonder a masterpiece. -Paul de Wispelaere, Vlaamse Gids Claus's work is just as broad as the soul is deep. -Gerrit Komrij The greatest writer of my generation. -Remco Campert Fine and ambitious . . . A work of savage satire intensely engaged with the moral and cultural life of the author's Belgium . . . Packed with asides, allusions, and fierce juxtapositions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos where contrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we can only 'wonder'. . . . [Wonder is] a reminder of the energy and experimental verve with which so many writers of the Fifties and Sixties (Malaparte, Bernhard, Grass, Böll, Burgess, Pynchon) conjured up [a] disjointed and rapidly complicating world. -The New York Review of Books To speak today of a still largely-unknown major work on European Fascism . . . seems presumptuous, rather like announcing the existence of, if not a new continent, at least a land mass of strange and significant proportions. But in discussing Wonder, it would be churlish not to admit to an explorer's exhilaration at discovery. -The National, "Fine and ambitious. . . . A work of savage satire intensely engaged with the moral and cultural life of the author's Belgium. . . . Packed with asides, allusions, and fierce juxtapositions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos where contrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we can only 'wonder'. . . . [ Wonder is] a reminder of the energy and experimental verve with which so many writers of the Fifties and Sixties (Malaparte, Bernhard, Grass, Böll, Burgess, Pynchon) conjured up [a] disjointed and rapidly complicating world." -- Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books "To speak today of a still largely-unknown major work on European Fascism . . . seems presumptuous, rather like announcing the existence of, if not a new continent, at least a land mass of strange and significant proportions. But in discussing Wonder, it would be churlish not to admit to an explorer's exhilaration at discovery." -- Sam Munson, The National "We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth from the injustice of things." -- Hugo Claus "The greatest writer of my generation." -- Remco Campert "Claus's work is just as broad as the soul is deep." -- Gerrit Komrij "While fully aware that such an honorable title can only be used in great exceptions in Flemish literature, I would call Wonder a masterpiece." -- Paul de Wispelaere, Vlaamse Gids "Claus rages against the decay of the physical self while desire remains untamed. From the beginning, his poetry has been marked by an uncommon mix of intelligence and passion, given expression in a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible." -- J.M. Coetzee, "Fine and ambitious. . . . A work of savage satire intensely engaged with the moral and cultural life of the author's Belgium. . . . Packed with asides, allusions, and fierce juxtapositions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos where contrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we can only ‘wonder'. . . . [ Wonder is] a reminder of the energy and experimental verve with which so many writers of the Fifties and Sixties (Malaparte, Bernhard, Grass, Boll, Burgess, Pynchon) conjured up [a] disjointed and rapidly complicating world." -- Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books "To speak today of a still largely-unknown major work on European Fascism . . . seems presumptuous, rather like announcing the existence of, if not a new continent, at least a land mass of strange and significant proportions. But in discussing Wonder, it would be churlish not to admit to an explorer's exhilaration at discovery." -- Sam Munson, The National "We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth from the injustice of things." -- Hugo Claus "The greatest writer of my generation." -- Remco Campert "Claus's work is just as broad as the soul is deep." -- Gerrit Komrij "While fully aware that such an honorable title can only be used in great exceptions in Flemish literature, I would call Wonder a masterpiece." -- Paul de Wispelaere, Vlaamse Gids "Claus rages against the decay of the physical self while desire remains untamed. From the beginning, his poetry has been marked by an uncommon mix of intelligence and passion, given expression in a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible." -- J.M. Coetzee, Claus rages against the decay of the physical self while desire remains untamed. From the beginning, his poetry has been marked by an uncommon mix of intelligence and passion, given expression in a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible. --J.M. Coetzee While fully aware that such an honorable title can only be used in great exceptions in Flemish literature, I would call Wonder a masterpiece. --Paul de Wispelaere, Vlaamse Gids Claus's work is just as broad as the soul is deep. --Gerrit Komrij The greatest writer of my generation. --Remco Campert Fine and ambitious . . . A work of savage satire intensely engaged with the moral and cultural life of the author's Belgium . . . Packed with asides, allusions, and fierce juxtapositions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos where contrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we can only 'wonder'. . . . [Wonder is] a reminder of the energy and experimental verve with which so many writers of the Fifties and Sixties (Malaparte, Bernhard, Grass, Böll, Burgess, Pynchon) conjured up [a] disjointed and rapidly complicating world. --The New York Review of Books To speak today of a still largely-unknown major work on European Fascism . . . seems presumptuous, rather like announcing the existence of, if not a new continent, at least a land mass of strange and significant proportions. But in discussing Wonder, it would be churlish not to admit to an explorer's exhilaration at discovery. --The National
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-045727
Dewey Decimal
839.3/1364
Dewey Edition
22
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