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Volatile Texts: Us Two

Volatile Texts: Us Two

Gahse, Zsuzsanna
Jiang, Chenxin

Paperback

Series: Swiss Literature

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1628971363
ISBN13: 9781628971361
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Feb 24 2017
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book's secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It's a perfect microcosm of Europe--a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse's ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.

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