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ISBN-10: 156478388X
ISBN-13: 9781564783882
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2006
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.60" W, 0.94" H

Things in the Night

Translator: Eric Dickens

Paperback

Price: $13.95

Overview

Things in the Night explores a world on the edge of disaster–plagued by mysterious power-outages and threatened by ominous conspiracies–juxtaposed against images and stories of unsurpassed beauty and tenderness. Beginning with the simple but moving words, “My Dear, I feel I owe you an explanation,” and ending with the passionate, lyrical, and immensely sad, “Those were beautiful years, beautiful autumn days,” this astounding novel, set in Estonia near the end of the millennium, is a hymn to the very best in the human imagination and a eulogy for what humans, at their worst, may destroy.

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"Unt's novel consists of the author's confessions, novel fragments, snatches of plays, comments on how to write a novel, poems, minutes of interrogations, letters, and quite a few quotes from popular classics. There are amusing adventures and pointless ratiocinations...The characters in the novel have strayed into a world where other people's words, cliched behavior, and serious scientific literature are jumbled up together. In its artistic radicalism, the novel is very modernist, while being very postmodern in its zest for irony. The ideas which drive the novel are primarily a fear of people and misanthropy, themes familiar from Unt's earlier works. Here again we have the criminals, farmers who set their dogs on those wandering through the night, arctic hysteria, and cannibalism."
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Details

ISBN-10: 156478388X
ISBN-13: 9781564783882
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2006
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.60" W, 0.94" H
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