Volatile Texts: Us Two

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse, Dalkey Archive Press
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Author: Zsuzsanna Gahse ISBN: 9781628972191
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication: February 4, 2017
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Language: English
Author: Zsuzsanna Gahse
ISBN: 9781628972191
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication: February 4, 2017
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.
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The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is disintegrating in the same way that the Alps disintegrate into individual lakes and valleys. Yet language itself is the true subject of these prose miniatures, which are volatile and unstable because they expose language as an arbitrary construct made of interchangeable parts; however, this is also what makes the book such an exciting read.

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