The Weight of Things

The Weight of Things

Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novelâ€”awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978â€”she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts so complicated that her publisher had to print them straight from her original documents. A project as brilliant as it is ambitious and as bizarre as it is brilliant, it earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce no less than Henry Darger, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.

Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.

"Starts out simply and gently and then wades into resonant darkness. A tiny, shattering masterpiece."â€”Brian Evenson

"Not an easy read, but surely an important one."â€”Publishers Weekly

"A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma."â€”Kirkus
Country USA
Brand Dorothy, a publishing project
Manufacturer Dorothy, a publishing project
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780989760775

Country	USA
Brand	Dorothy, a publishing project
Manufacturer	Dorothy, a publishing project
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780989760775

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