Awakening to the Great Sleep WarAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 14 February 2013
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One of the loveliest riddles of Austrian literature is finally available in English translation: Gert Jonkeâ?Ts 1982 novel, Awakening to the Great Sleep War, is an expedition through a world in constant nervous motion, where reality is rapidly frayingâ?"flags refuse to stick to their poles, lids sidle off of their pots, tram tracks shake their stops away like fleas, and books abandon libraries in droves. Our cicerone on this journey through the possible (and impossible) is an â?oacoustical decoratorâ?? by the name of BurgmA¼llerâ?"a poetical gentleman, the lover of three women, able to communicate with birds, and at least as philosophically minded as his author: â?oEverything has suddenly become so transparent that one canâ?Tt see through anything anymore.â?? This enormously comicâ?"and equally melancholicâ?"tale is perhaps Jonkeâ?Ts masterwork.
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