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In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of
the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches,
he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in
agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his
open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by
the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary where the two
streets in the cross-shaped village meet. Thus begins When the Time
Comes, Josef Winkler's chronicle of life in rural Austria written
in the form of a necrology, tracing the benighted destiny of a
community through its suicides and the tragic deaths that befall
it, punctuated by the invocation of the bone-cooker whose viscous
brew is painted on the faces of the work horses and the haunting
stanzas of Baudelaire's "Litanies of Satan." In a hypnotic,
incantatory prose reminiscent at times of Homer, at times of the
Catholic liturgy, at times of the naming of the generations in the
book of Genesis, When the Time Comes is a ruthless dissection of
the pastoral novel, laying bare the corruption that lies in its
heart. Writing in the vein of his compatriots Peter Handke, and
Elfriede Jelinek, but perhaps going further in his relentlessness
and aesthetic radicalism, Josef Winkler is one of the most
significant European authors working today.
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Imprint: |
Contra Mundum Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2013 |
First published: |
October 2013 |
Authors: |
Josef Winkler
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Translators: |
Adrian West
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
228 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-940625-01-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-940625-01-7 |
Barcode: |
9781940625010 |
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