{"title":"Marianne Fritz","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the profound and experimental literary world of Marianne Fritz. Her works explore themes of societal constraint and psychological depth, offering a challenging and rewarding reading experience for adventurous minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"weight-of-things-book-marianne-fritz-9781786632968","title":"The Weight of Things","description":"The first of the late Marianne Fritz's works to be translated into English. This dark gem of a novel swerves from uneasy pantomime comedy to sheer domestic horror. Fritz has a clammy handle on all that makes humans miserable: roll up for the horrors of jealousy, war, confinement, mental illness, regret and unhappy motherhood.  The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). After winning acclaim with this novel-awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978-she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called \"The Fortress,\"  which earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.  Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579255464209,"sku":"GOR008715361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734963200273,"sku":"NGR9781786632968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50950439829777,"sku":"GOR014140809","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51611229159697,"sku":"GOR011927125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1786632969.jpg?v=1751410584"},{"product_id":"weight-of-things-book-marianne-fritz-9780989760775","title":"The Weight of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Weight of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel--awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978--she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called \"The Fortress,\" creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts so complicated that her publisher had to print them straight from her original documents. A project as brilliant as it is ambitious and as bizarre as it is brilliant, it earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce no less than Henry Darger, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096544055569,"sku":"CIN0989760774G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50824005550353,"sku":"GOR007756959","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51745178190097,"sku":"NIN9780989760775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52981706359057,"sku":"CIN0989760774VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0989760774.jpg?v=1750917357"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-marianne-fritz.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}