Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

Softcover
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From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel—and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life—and all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout—until he is swept inevitably into the narrative's starting and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both—and of extraordinary intellectual richness.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
208
Price
20.00 €

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This is an interesting novel which stylewise reminded me of [b:Invisible Cities|9809|Invisible Cities|Italo Calvino|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468623303s/9809.jpg|68476] and [b:1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts|13640736|1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts|Florian Illies|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1336576123s/13640736.jpg|19255252], both fantastic books. It consists of a huge number of anecdotes, facts, quotes etc. but what I was missing a bit was the story. It exists, but there is so very little of it that you could almost miss it. If you want to understand this book at all you have to read it from beginning to end and not just parts of it because otherwise you won't understand the end. Like in Invisible Cities it would be very interesting to do some research on some of the epigraphs, take a closer look at the structure etc. Thsi book is not for everyone because you often need quite a broad education to understand what the author is talking about. It's an interesting experiment but still readable.

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