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Bottom's Dream

Bottom's Dream

Schmidt, Arno
Woods, John E.

Hardcover

Series: German Literature

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1628971592
ISBN13: 9781628971590
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Sep 23 2016
Pages: 1496
Weight: 12.95
Height: 3.50 Width: 10.75 Depth: 14.00
Language: English

I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires.

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