Bibliograph

Volatile texts, us two

Type

Label

Volatile texts, us two

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Volatile texts

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Swiss literature series

Sub title

us two

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification