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- Author: Urs Allemann
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 114
- ISBN-10: 1628970162
- ISBN-13: 9781628970166
- Format: 12.5 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's The Old Man and the Bench is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
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- Author: Urs Allemann
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 114
- ISBN-10: 1628970162
- ISBN-13: 9781628970166
- Format: 12.5 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's The Old Man and the Bench is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
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