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How German Is It?
Walter Abish

Penguin, 2005

1 review
Walter Abish

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1975

12 Short Stories by Walter Abish
From back cover: "Can fiction explore itself? In Walter Abish's 'Minds Meet', each of the dozen absurdly humorous yet frequently disquieting stories provides the material that probes its own existence. Marcel Proust, between writing sessions, hunts rats in New Mexico. The characters in the title piece ponder the message from outer space that reads 'Is there any other way to live?" Two ...

Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book)

3 reviews
Walter Abish

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1974

Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
Alliterative Analogies, assertively assembled, appear aplenty, appropriately, apt and artful, absorbing attention ad infinitum. This could be a fitting summary of Abish's stunningly "now" novel, written almost a quarter of a century ago with a linguistic device concocted between Kabbala and alliteration. Chapter 1 is composed with words beginning only with the letter A, Chapter 2 with A and B ...

How German Is It = Wie Deutsch Ist Es: A Novel

9 reviews
Walter Abish

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1980

Very engaging
Abish as an experimentalist is writing this book using German stereotypes: he's started from the premise of culling through all the German stereotypes in his mind, and then he activates them in a story format. The characters and situations and histories he comes up with are all a bit off, not quite real, and being a very agile writer Abish captures this residue of unreality and feeds into it: the ...

99: The New Meaning (Burning Deck Fiction)

1 review
Walter Abish

Burning Deck, 1990

Interesting exploration but...
I'm never sure how to respond to experimental found text books. They are interesting as an exercise - especially to observe one's response to texts out of their context. However, rarely do they work as literature in their own right - at least in the sense of being of interest in 500 years. When they work, I still consider them emphemeral. 99: The New Meaning is not an exception. The ...

Eclipse Fever (Nonpareil Books, No 76) (Nonpareil Books, No 76)

2 reviews
Walter Abish

David R Godine, 1995

The Best "Latin-American" Novel in English
Eclipse Fever reads remarkably like a translation of a novel by Argentine Julio Cortazar or some other Latin writer. Given Abish's control of language, this cannot be an accident, especially since his previous novel "How German is It?" had the same odd effect of reading like a translation of a modern German novel, by Thomas Bernhard perhaps. Even the melodramatic aspects of Eclipse Fever (as ...

Playboy: Helmut Newton

1 review
Helmut Newton, Mary Lynn Blasutta

Chronicle Books, 2005

On time: classic Book
Hugh Hefner is One of the Coldest Playa's on the Planet. the Cat always Kept it Gangsta.Much Props&Daps always to Hugh Hefner. this Book is On time.very artistic&Very Creative. the Ladies are Beautiful&Look fly. my only knock is that every once&in a while is that Hugh needs to Bring some More thick chicks into the Mix. but other than that this is a Tasteful&cool Visual. My Eye-sight after ...

Conjunctions: Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing (Conjunctions)

Conjunctions, 1987

Edited by John Guare.

Even Vienna could not forever endure this struggle.(Short Story): An article from: The Review of Contemporary ...
Walter Abish

Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2004

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Double Vision: A Self-Portrait
Walter Abish

Knopf, 2004

Does one ever escape from the family? How much do we understand about our own past? How do we come to be who we are? Walter Abish, the internationally acclaimed author of How German Is It, examines these questions through the prism of his own experience, and confronts and encapsulates the historic upheavals of the mid-twentieth century in this brilliant, deceptively simple, and quietly wrenching account of his two journeys. The first begins ...

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