| The Country Road: Stories Contributor(s): Ullman, Regina (Author), Beals, Kurt (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811220052 ISBN-13: 9780811220057 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813 |
| LCCN: 2014027198 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 8.2" (0.30 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set in the Swiss countryside, the archaic and the modern collide, and sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks. this delicate but fragile beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Ullmann her unique voice. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ullman, Regina: - Admired by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, Regina Ullmann became famous with the 1921 publication of this collection. After a difficult life ("I went by the detour instead of by the way"), she died in 1961.Beals, Kurt: - In 2010 Kurt Beals was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf-enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize. His translation of Regina Ullmann's The Country Road was published by New Directions in 2015. |