Adventures In Immediate Irreality
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Publisher Description
Often called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.
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Originally published in 1936, Blecher s novella spins the narrative of a nameless young man who suffers from self-proclaimed crises, moments of uncertainty and loss of identity, as he drifts across a small Romanian town one warm summer. Episodic chapters find him acting similarly to most of his peers experimenting with sex, visiting the cinema, wax museums, local fairs, and attending weddings yet during each of these events, the adolescent breaks from his contemporaries by ruminating on internal and peripheral occurrences impacting his life, and he searches for the existential and physical connection between himself and his surroundings. The notion of the world as stage accompanied me everywhere, he claims, and Blecher uses his account to scrutinize how we all perceive our fellow man, as well as the emotional investments we apply to inanimate objects. Blecher s gift of language is exceptional. In addition to this new translation, the slim volume contains two essays, which provide backstory and insight.
