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050 00 $aPT2670.O5$bG413 1994
082 00 $a833/.914$220
100 1 $aJonke, Gert,$d1946-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85164554
240 10 $aGeometrischer Heimatroman.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93085965
245 10 $aGeometric regional novel /$cGert Jonke ; translated with an afterword by Johannes W. Vazulik.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNormal, IL :$bDalkey Archive Press,$c1994.
300 $a131 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 130-131).
520 $aThe English-language debut of one of Austria's leading writers, Geometric Regional Novel is an innovative satire on the process by which bureaucracy and official regimentation insidiously pervade society. In a deadpan, pseudo-scientific tone, the nameless narrator takes us on a tour of a bizarre village whose inhabitants lead such habitual, regulated lives that they resemble elements in a mathematical equation.
520 8 $aThe traditional leaders of village life - the mayor, the priest, the teacher - uphold the status quo with comically exaggerated attention to ceremony and trivia, and other villagers perform roles identical to those of the generations who preceded them.
520 8 $aThat nearly every aspect of village life has been codified in some way is suggested by the intrusive presence of warnings, instructions, aphorisms, diagrams, historical records, ordinances, and forms - including a hilarious 6-page one for anyone wishing to take a stroll in the forest that makes the IRS's long form look user-friendly by comparison.
520 8 $aContrasting with the mathematical descriptions of village life are flashes of colorful, surrealistic writing, exemplifying the life of the imagination so often smothered beneath the monotonous routine of traditional rural existence. The stifling conservatism of such life has rarely been exposed as mercilessly as Jonke does here.
852 00 $bglx$hPT2670.O5$iG413 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPT2670.O5$iG413 1994