The weight of things
By: Marianne Fritz ; translated and with an afterword by Adrian Nathan West
Contributors: West, Adrian, translator
Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780989760775
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Families; Austrian fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Work titles: Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse
Description: THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007)... Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Schwerkraft der verhältnisse.