Description
This remarkable work, in Jordan Stump's superb translation, offers readers a thrilling entry into Bassmann's numinous world
About the Author
Lutz Bassmann belongs to a community of imaginary authors invented, championed, and literarily realized by Antoine Volodine, a French writer of Slavic origins born in 1950. Volodine's many celebrated, category-defying works include the award-winning Minor Angels (Nebraska, 2004), which blends science fiction, Tibetan myth, a ludic approach to writing, and a profound humanistic idealism. Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Other Book (Nebraska, 2011), has translated numerous texts, including Minor Angels, and was awarded the French-American Foundation's translation prize and the Prix Medicis in 2014.
Reviews
"A cold-eyed rebuke to those who complain of the lack of inventiveness of French writers."-Jean-Maurice de Montremy
"A continually changing, continually new poetic force."-Christophe Kantcheff, Politis
"Between a fragile lyricism and an almost silent poetic expression of an absolute, inevitable devastation."-Hugo Pradelle, La Quinzaine Litteraire
"Vividly imagined, thought provoking and spare, this is an unusual collection . . . worth searching out."-Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics
Book Information
ISBN 9780803239913
Author Lutz Bassmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press