Michal Ajvaz

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The Golden AgePaperback, 20 April 2010

The Golden Age
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Part of Series
Czech Literature
Print Length
329 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published
20 Apr 2010
ISBN-10
1564785785
ISBN-13
9781564785787

Description

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator s orderly treatise.

Product Details

Author:
Michal Ajvaz
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
20 April 2010
Dimensions:
20.32 x 13.97 x 3.18 cm
ISBN-10:
1564785785
ISBN-13:
9781564785787
Language:
English
Location:
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Pages:
329
Weight:
403.7 gm

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