'I'
Wolfgang Hilbig author Isabel Fargo Cole translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
Published:17th Jul '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This is the perfect book for paranoid times, "I" introduces us to W, a mere hangeron in East Berlin's postmodern underground literary scene. All is not as it appears, though, as W is actually a Stasi informant who reports to the mercurial David Bowie look-alike Major Feuerbach. But are political secrets all that W is seeking in the underground labyrinth of Berlin? In fact, what W really desires are his own lost memories, the self undone by surveillance: his "I." First published in Germany in 1993 and hailed as an instant classic, "I" is a black comedy about state power and the seductions of surveillance. Its penetrating vision seems especially relevant today in our world of cameras on every train, bus, and corner. This is an engrossing read, available now for the first time in English.
"[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." (Los Angeles Review of Books)
ISBN: 9780857422347
Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm
Weight: 595g
312 pages