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Science Fiktion (Hardcover)
Series: German List
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When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his
work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted
nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that
make up this volume, however, he found himself coming around to the
idea of a hybrid genre—what he calls in German Saiäns-Fiktschen,
`science fiktion’ with a k. In seven interlocking stories,
Science Fiktion offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the
Cold War. In this imagined future, two nations compete for global
dominance: Uniterr, an exaggeration of the Eastern Bloc, in which
personal freedom is curtailed and life regulated with cartoonish
strictness; and Libroterr, in which the decadence of the West has
been pushed beyond all reason. The stories follow three young
citizens of Uniterr: Jirro, a young neutrinologist whose life is
forever changed by a year spent abroad in Libroterr; Janno, a
causologist condemned to a life of mediocrity in Uniterr’s
bureacracy for the briefest of impure thoughts; and Pavlo, an
inventor and a drunkard, whose mind pushes against the limits of
what his world allows. Through these three lives, Fühmann
gradually unfolds the contours of their bizarre world in a master
class of understated world making. As the reader is swept up in the
madness of Libroterr’s predator ads (which grab you on the
street) and Uniterr’s mandatory mind readings, Fühmann’s dark
comedy from the last century comes to seem all the more prescient
in ours. A German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion
provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of
the Berlin Wall.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
German List |
Release date: |
November 2018 |
Authors: |
Franz Fuhmann
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Translators: |
Andrew B B Hamilton
• Claire Van Den Broek
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-601-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-85742-601-X |
Barcode: |
9780857426017 |
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