The Golden Age
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- 329 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text--but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.
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The Golden Age, Michal Ajvaz, Andrew Oakland
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2010
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda),
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- Título
- The Golden Age
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Michal Ajvaz, Andrew Oakland
- Editorial
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publicado en
- 2010
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 329
- ISBN10
- 1564785785
- ISBN13
- 9781564785787
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Viajes, Literatura checa, EE.UU., Regalos para mujeres, Ciencia ficción fantástica, Regalos para hombres, República Checa, Siglo XXI, Realismo mágico, Islas, Fantástico, Civilización Occidental, Choque de civilizaciones y culturas, Novelas Absurdas
- Descripción
- The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text--but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.