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3 books by Walter Abish
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Overview: Walter Abish, (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-born American writer of experimental novels and short stories whose fiction takes as its subject language itself.
Abish spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his family were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. In 1949 they moved to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed strong interests in architecture and writing. He immigrated to the United States in 1957 and became a citizen in 1960. From 1975 Abish taught English at several eastern colleges and universities and was a guest professor at Yale University and at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He was awarded the inaugural PEN/Faulkner Award in 1981. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Alphabetical Africa: Alphabetical Africa (1974) is Walter Abish's delightful first novel. It's an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the "geoglyphic" African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll.
In the Future Perfect: In the Future Perfect is Walter Abish’s third collection of fiction. Readers of his earlier prose works–Minds Meet and the novel Alphabetical Africa–will recognize the dead-pan humor that subverts familiar realities by reflecting on the nature of language itself rather than plot or narrative voice and line. With this ironic introduction of the unexpected, society’s most comfortable symbols––the icon of the model city, for example, or the sanctuary of the perfect home––come to delineate the very precariousness of our existence. In one of the nine stories included here, an American on his first trip abroad interviews a postwar German writer in a new town built on the site of a former concentration camp. In another, a successful woman executive, between elegant parties, swings with leather-jacketed motorcycle thugs in her impeccable Central Park West apartment. One of the leading lights in experimental letters in America, Walter Abish writes fiction that reflects on its own structure and confronts its characters with the preposterousness of their condition.
Eclipse Fever: In this 1993 novel, among the multifaceted characters whose lives interlock are Alejandro, a once-prominent literary critic fallen into disfavor; his estranged wife, Mercedes, whom he suspects of openly conducting an affair with an American writer; Bonny, the writer's runaway daughter, who is made to witness a calamitous sequence of events that culminates in murder; Preston, an American industrialist, and his sexually frustrated wife, Rita; and the unscrupulous art dealer Pech. As the lives of these people press together, as they buckle and collapse, the novel holds up a mirror to a moment in which we lived-the end of a millennium, of an era-and to the perils, temptations, and hysteria that lie just below the surface.
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Overview: Walter Abish, (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-born American writer of experimental novels and short stories whose fiction takes as its subject language itself.
Abish spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his family were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. In 1949 they moved to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed strong interests in architecture and writing. He immigrated to the United States in 1957 and became a citizen in 1960. From 1975 Abish taught English at several eastern colleges and universities and was a guest professor at Yale University and at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He was awarded the inaugural PEN/Faulkner Award in 1981. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Alphabetical Africa: Alphabetical Africa (1974) is Walter Abish's delightful first novel. It's an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the "geoglyphic" African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll.
In the Future Perfect: In the Future Perfect is Walter Abish’s third collection of fiction. Readers of his earlier prose works–Minds Meet and the novel Alphabetical Africa–will recognize the dead-pan humor that subverts familiar realities by reflecting on the nature of language itself rather than plot or narrative voice and line. With this ironic introduction of the unexpected, society’s most comfortable symbols––the icon of the model city, for example, or the sanctuary of the perfect home––come to delineate the very precariousness of our existence. In one of the nine stories included here, an American on his first trip abroad interviews a postwar German writer in a new town built on the site of a former concentration camp. In another, a successful woman executive, between elegant parties, swings with leather-jacketed motorcycle thugs in her impeccable Central Park West apartment. One of the leading lights in experimental letters in America, Walter Abish writes fiction that reflects on its own structure and confronts its characters with the preposterousness of their condition.
Eclipse Fever: In this 1993 novel, among the multifaceted characters whose lives interlock are Alejandro, a once-prominent literary critic fallen into disfavor; his estranged wife, Mercedes, whom he suspects of openly conducting an affair with an American writer; Bonny, the writer's runaway daughter, who is made to witness a calamitous sequence of events that culminates in murder; Preston, an American industrialist, and his sexually frustrated wife, Rita; and the unscrupulous art dealer Pech. As the lives of these people press together, as they buckle and collapse, the novel holds up a mirror to a moment in which we lived-the end of a millennium, of an era-and to the perils, temptations, and hysteria that lie just below the surface.
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