Angels of the Universe
of Einar Már Guðmundsson, Bernard Scudder (Translator)
Description
Born on the day Iceland joined NATO, this novel's unstable narrator worries this and other incidental phenomena into a highly complex, hilarious, and tragic cosmology. More interested in David Bowie and the Beatles than the Nordic sagas that shape the lives of the working-class peoples of Reykjavik, Paul retreats into his own fantastic, schizophrenic, painful world. His madness springs from bits of reality and brighter strikes of insanity. Out-of-work and aimless, tormented by bouts of drinking and ferocious tantrums, Paul walks Reykjavik's streets scaring his family lusting after women, recounting petty humiliations, and imagining the forces that both guide and haunt him. Paul's behaviors lead him to Klepp, a psychiatric hospital outside Reykjavik where he plays out his days in therapy and frantic conversation with its resident patients. Sparsely inhabited, Klepp tends to a variety of disturbed people creating comedic havoc.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176 pages
- Publisher St Martins Press
- Publication Date March 1st 1997
- First Publication 10/30/93
- Language English
- ISBN 9780312150532
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Reykjavik (Reykjavík) (Iceland)']
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