View of Delft by Yuriy Tarnawsky
Fiction. The themes of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, developed in LIKE BLOD IN WATER and elaborated in THE FUTURE OF GIRAFES, the first and second books of The Placebo Effect Trilogy, are picked up in the third book, VIEW OF DELFT, and are given a new treatment in German context. A neurotic intellectual lets himself be adopted by a couple with a Down syndrome son to escape the stress of being normal. Another man searches desperately for a meaning in life to become mad in the end. The son of a suicidal Prussian Junker family becomes obsessed with an albino boy, thinking he has caused his death. Love between two people is shown to be as transient as a cloud. And a traveler accidentally finds himself in a hospital/boarding school where they teach the residents how to die.The five mininovels that make up VIEW OF DELFT, as is the case with its two companions, all employ negative text gaps of vital information which the reader is obliged to supply himself. By bringing personal experience into the story, the reader makes it more vivid and real, becoming in the process its co-author together with the author of the text.
Tarnawsky, Yuriy: - Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, including three volumes of interrelated mininovels (his own genre) THE PLACEBO EFFECT TRILOGY (JEF Books, 2013), the novel WARM ARTIC NIGHTS (JEF BOOKS, 2019), the novel THE IGUANAS OF HEAT, the novel Three Blondes and Death, and a volume of heuristic poetry Modus Tollens. His affinity for animals is well exemplified in many of his works including CROCODILE SMILES (JEF Books. 2020). He was born in Ukraine but was raised and educated in the West. An engineer and linguist by training, he has worked as computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence at IBM Corporation as well as Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture at Columbia University. He lives with his wife Karina in the New York City metropolitan area.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781884097270 |
| ISBN 10 | 1884097278 |
| Title | View of Delft |
| Author | Yuriy Tarnawsky |
| Series | Journal Of Experimental Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jef Books |
| Year published | 2013-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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