BergAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Saturday 1 December 2001
Description
"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father..." So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Against the backdrop of this gritty seaside town, an absurd and brutal plot develops involving three characters--Alistair Berg, his father, and their mutual mistress. In his attempt to kill his father, Berg mutilates a ventriloquist's dummy, almost falls victim to his father's mistaken sexual advances, and is relentlessly taunted by a group of tramps. Disturbing and at times startlingly comic, Berg chronicles the interrelations among these three characters as they circle one another in an escalating spiral of violence. A member of a group of British avant-garde writers that included B. S. Johnson and Eva Figes, Ann Quin is one of the best kept secrets of British contemporary experimental writing. She published four novels before her death at the age of 37.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
23 Aug 2022
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€11.70
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
02 Feb 2021
Short stories
€11.70
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
06 Oct 2020
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€11.70
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
07 Mar 2019
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€11.70
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews