Peter Weiss 
Conversation of the Three Wayfarers 

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This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniature


Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents—the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in such a fantastic manner? Weiss’s strikingly original prose has an impossibly contained quality, with each sentence doing a perfect double-double backflip before neatly landing. This essential rediscovered work, from the masterful and acclaimed German modernist Peter Weiss, will be a delightful discovery for readers of Kafka, Musil, and Gombrowicz.

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John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication,  Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 Mac Arthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 80 ● ISBN 9780811231640 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Translator E.B. Garside ● Publisher New Directions ● Country US ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8340712 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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