The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place (Paperback)

The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to "the stupidest American president in history," when he discovers that he may share the genes of a certain, infamous Austrian corporal, thanks to a dalliance on the part of his grandmother during the First World War. Around the hapless Gaspard's descent into amnesia and anti-social rebellion, an obsessive-compulsive narrator assembles 111 pithy chapters linked by the ultimate theme of all: the coming apocalypse. In this deadpan anti-novel, statistics and historical data are marshalled, and the divagations range over subjects as various as the history of religions, Viagra, vegetarianism and dietary taboos, aerial bombing, the Maltese national anthem, categories of suicide, varieties of stupidity, bathtubs, the critical density of the universe, pork and pigmen, and the etymology of the name Adolf.

General

Imprint:	Dalkey Archive Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Czech Literature
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Patrik Ou redn ik
Translators:	Alexander Hertich
Dimensions:	139 x 217 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-62897-339-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-62897-339-0
Barcode:	9781628973396

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