An edition of The lamentations of Zeno (2016)

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An edition of The lamentations of Zeno (2016)

The lamentations of Zeno

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"Bavarian glaciologist Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to its rapid degradation. In his early sixties, Zeno mourns the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his loveless marriage, and the crumbling of his increasingly irrelevant career (he compares giving lectures on glaciers to "teaching veterinarians who had specialized in the subject of dinosaurs.") The desperate Zeno hatches a horrifying plan, and driven to the brink, he is convinced that his only option is to shake his fellow passengers out of their complacency and send a wake-up call to the world. With poignant, playful prose, The Lamentations of Zeno is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting tale that looks at the greatest challenge of our age from a uniquely human angle"--

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The lamentations of Zeno
2016
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Lamentations of Zeno: A Novel
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Edition Notes

Translation from the German of: EisTau.

Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.92
Library of Congress
PT2682.R56 E4713 2016, PT2682.R56E4713 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 164 pages
Number of pages
164

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27210346M
Internet Archive
lamentationsofze0000troj
ISBN 10
178478219X
ISBN 13
9781784782191
LCCN
2015039884
OCLC/WorldCat
913844935

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