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'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

'I' cover

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