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- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Number of Pages: 112
- ISBN: 0811216578
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112600198
- Release Date: July 29, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #572435 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #61620 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #10434 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Azorno" by Inger Christensen and Denise Newman to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Azorno"Browse more products related to "Inger Christensen and Denise Newman"Publisher's noteA leading Denmark poet presents a tale in the style of a logic puzzle or house of mirrors in which two men--one who is a writer and the other who is the main character in the writer's novel--interact in ways that bring into question which of them is real and which is not, a dynamic that is complicated by the writer's impregnation of five different women. Original. Set in modern Europe, the novel is about five women and two men. One of the men is a writer, the other is the main character of this novel. All of the women are pregnant by the main character. The questions then arise: who is the narrator? Has someone been killed? Is someone crazy? And, whose book is this anyway? The story ends with a struggle between two merged characters. AnnotationCelebrated Danish author Inger Christensen (who died in 2009) was famous in her homeland for her experimental fiction and poetry, her love of mathematics, puzzles, and formal devices. Her quixotic but brilliantly fashioned novel AZORNO is a wonderful example of her unique sensibility. Five women are trying to determine which of them is the model for a beautiful line of description in a novel by an author named Sempel. To determine the truth, Sempel's wife Bet invites the women to her house to see who could have inspired the beautiful prose. Written from multiple narrative perspectives, the novel shifts and slides between characters, and includes more than one overt contradiction, but for those willing to contend with these modernists techniques, AZORNO is a fascinating meditation on writing, identity, sanity, and meaning. If You Enjoy "Azorno (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Azorno (Paperback)" by Inger Christensen (Author) and...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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