Adventures In Immediate Irreality

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By Max Blecher

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Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork by Romanian writer Max Blecher, captures the unsettling crises of "irreality" experienced in his youth. The novel unfolds through gliding chapters that emulate a dreamlike logic, portraying the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man as he glimpses eerie mirages of future events.
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Ideal for readers interested in literary fiction, especially those drawn to surreal, memoiristic narratives exploring youth, perception, and existential crises.

Often called "the Kafka of Romania," Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.

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Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events.

In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.

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Praised by Herta Muller for its vivid intensity, the book's words "dig their talons into the things and hoist them high." The Times Literary Supplement compares Blecher's work to Kafka and Salvador Dali, highlighting its hallucinatory and ontological collapse motifs. Norman Manea calls the novel "hallucinatory, intense, and deeply authentic," recognising its literary force powered by acute sensitivity and ardour.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811217606

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 February 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Translated by Michael Henry Heim

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 141g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Max Blecher, born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Romania, contracted tuberculosis of the spine at 19, and spent the rest of his life in hospitals. Despite his illness, he wrote steadily and carried on an intense correspondence with many, including Andre Breton, Andre Gide, and Martin Heidegger. He died at the age of 28. Working with great Czech, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German, and Dutch authors, Michael Henry Heim-one of America's greatest translators-won many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and the PEN Translation Prize.