Bottom's dream
By: Arno Schmidt ; [translated by John E. Woods]
Contributors: Woods, John E. (John Edwin), translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1495
ISBN-13: 9781628971590; 9783518809006
Copyright date: 2016
Work titles: Zettels Traum
Description: "'I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,' says Bottom. 'I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,' Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires." --
Notes: Translation from the German of: Zettels Traum.