Tynset
By: Wolfgang Hildesheimer ; translated by Jeffrey Castle
Contributors: Castle, Jeffrey, translator
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Series: Swiss literature series; Swiss literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781628971422
Subjects: Insomnia; Fiction; Guilt; Memory
Work titles: Tynset
Description: "Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of the immediate present serve merely as points of departure. Plagued by incessant rumination, the narrator's restless mind spins thread after thread of thought, fantasy, and memory into an elaborate tapestry spanning centuries and covering thousands of miles--all without the narrator ever leaving his house. Hildesheimer famously refused to describe Tynset as a novel; instead, he chose to think of the work as an extended monologue whose structure derives from the musical rondo form, with the recurrence of the titular Norwegian town functioning as a refrain."--
Notes: Translated from the German.