Brütt, or, The sighing gardens
By: Friederike Mayröcker ; translated from the German by Roslyn Theobald.
Contributors: Theobald, Roslyn.
Series: AGM collection; Avant-garde & modernism studies; Avant-garde and modernism studies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Evanston, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780810119666
Other titles: Brutt; Sighing gardens
Work titles: Brütt.
Description: "Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's late-life love affair as told through her journal - a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found items from newspaper articles, literature, art, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to the author's linguistic experiments." "Mayrocker's prose creates a hypnotic, slurred narrative stream that is formally seamless while simultaneously overstepping all the bounds of grammar and style. She pushes to expose the limits of language and explore its experimental potential, seeking a reordering of the world through the reordering of words."--book jacket.
Notes: "Originally published in German in 1998 under the title Brütt oder Die seufzenden Garten ... by Suhrkamp Verlag"--T.p. verso.