A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man’s search for reality, Kleinzeit () is one of Russell Hoban’s best-loved works. “Hoban is as funny and unusual as any writer around Kleinzeit is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de /5(23). · The Second Mrs Kong (Libretto, ) The Second Mrs Kong is an opera by Sir Harrison Birtwistle with libretto by Russell Hoban. From Wikipedia: "Glyndebourne Touring Opera first staged the opera on 24 October The cast included Philip Langridge, Helen Field and Michael Chance. · Russell Hoban On his death in , The Times described Russell Hoban as 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortal Frances stories and his first novel, The Mouse and His.
On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the. Editions for Kleinzeit: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Hardcover published in ), (Ki. A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man's search for reality, Kleinzeit () is one of Russell Hoban's best-loved works. read more Available to buy.
Russell Hoban, who died just recently, was without question one of the most imaginative fiction writers of the 20th century, and while it is his 4th adult novel (and his crowning masterpiece) "Riddley Walker" that is most often cited as his best work, it is all too easy to overlook his previous magical, magnificent novels, which is why I wanted to stake a claim for the lesser know "Kleinzeit" as his most enjoyable novel, bringing together (as it does) his gift for storytelling, his fabulous. A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man's search for reality, Kleinzeit () is one of Russell Hoban's best-loved works. 'Hoban is as funny and unusual as any writer around Kleinzeit is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force.'. A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man’s search for reality, Kleinzeit () is one of Russell Hoban’s best-loved works. “Hoban is as funny and unusual as any writer around Kleinzeit is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force.”.
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