The Will To Sickness
This piece of fiction has been translated from German by Tristram Wolff and is part of Burning Deck's Dichten series which focuses on contemporary...
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This piece of fiction has been translated from German by Tristram Wolff and is part of Burning Deck's Dichten series which focuses on contemporary German writers.
The Will to Sickness is Gerhard Roth's classic 1973 novella. It reveals Roth's "objective prose" at its finest, where aggregates of particular impressions merge with a quasi-scientific emphasis on individual minute details.
"Shutting the window Kalb caught sight of himself for a moment in the mirror of the windowpane: his eyeballs looked exactly like a set of fried eggs"
The effect of this prose is surreal with an undertone of Angst that perceives anything as strange and menacing, the product of a hard-edged exploration of the strangeness of perception itself.
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- ISBN10:1886224781
- ISBN13:9781886224780
- kindle Asin:1886224781
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