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Summary: "The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was my fat brother ; Thomas Mann called him one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature. Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of beetles and buttercups, the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter has been rediscovered in recent years as a radical experimenter with narrative and a forerunner of nature writing's darker currents. One of his best-known and most accessible works, the novella cycle Motley Stones now appears in its first complete English translation, a rendition that respects the bracing strangeness of the original. In six thematically linked novellas, including the beloved classic Rock Crystal, human dramas play out amid the natural cycles of the Alps or the urban rhythms of Vienna--environments so keenly observed that they emerge as the tales' most indomitable protagonists. Stifter's human characters are equally haunting--children braving perils, eccentrics and loners harboring enigmatic torments. We seek to glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race, Stifter famously wrote. What he glimpsed, more often than not, was the abyss that lies behind the idyll. The tension between his humane sensitivity and his dark visions is what lends his writing its heartbreaking power."--Provided by publisher

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New York, NY, New York Review of Books, 2021

Extent: xxi, 253 pages

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Granite
Limestone
Tourmaline
Rock crystal
Cat-silver
Rock milk

Isbn: 9781681375205

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Title: Motley stones

Statement of responsibility: Adalbert Stifter ; translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole

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Summary: "The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was my fat brother ; Thomas Mann called him one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature. Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of beetles and buttercups, the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter has been rediscovered in recent years as a radical experimenter with narrative and a forerunner of nature writing's darker currents. One of his best-known and most accessible works, the novella cycle Motley Stones now appears in its first complete English translation, a rendition that respects the bracing strangeness of the original. In six thematically linked novellas, including the beloved classic Rock Crystal, human dramas play out amid the natural cycles of the Alps or the urban rhythms of Vienna--environments so keenly observed that they emerge as the tales' most indomitable protagonists. Stifter's human characters are equally haunting--children braving perils, eccentrics and loners harboring enigmatic torments. We seek to glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race, Stifter famously wrote. What he glimpsed, more often than not, was the abyss that lies behind the idyll. The tension between his humane sensitivity and his dark visions is what lends his writing its heartbreaking power."--Provided by publisher

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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1805-1868,

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Stifter, Adalbert

Index: no index present

Literary form: fiction

http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate: 1973-

http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName: Cole, Isabel Fargo

Series statement: New York Review Books classics

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Label: Motley stones, Adalbert Stifter ; translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole

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Motley stones

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New York, NY, New York Review of Books, 2021

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Content category: text

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Contents: Granite -- Limestone -- Tourmaline -- Rock crystal -- Cat-silver -- Rock milk

Control code: 1150826995

Dimensions: 21 cm

Extent: xxi, 253 pages

Isbn: 9781681375205

Lccn: 2020015769

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System control number: (OCoLC)1150826995

Label: Motley stones, Adalbert Stifter ; translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole

Publication

New York, NY, New York Review of Books, 2021

Copyright

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents: Granite -- Limestone -- Tourmaline -- Rock crystal -- Cat-silver -- Rock milk

Control code: 1150826995

Dimensions: 21 cm

Extent: xxi, 253 pages

Isbn: 9781681375205

Lccn: 2020015769

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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System control number: (OCoLC)1150826995

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