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Tynset

Tynset

Hildesheimer, Wolfgang
Castle, Jeffrey

Paperback

Series: Swiss Literature

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1628971428
ISBN13: 9781628971422
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Sep 23 2016
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of the immediate present serve merely as points of departure. Plagued by incessant rumination, the narrator's restless mind spins thread after thread of thought, fantasy, and memory into an elaborate tapestry spanning centuries and covering thousands of miles--all without the narrator ever leaving his house. Hildesheimer famously refused to describe Tynset as a novel; instead, he chose to think of the work as an extended monologue whose structure derives from the musical rondo form, with the recurrence of the titular Norwegian town functioning as a refrain. The novel was awarded the 1966 Bremen Literature Prize.

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