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Walaschek's Dream

Giovanni Orelli author Jamie Richards translator Daniel Rothenbuhler editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:7th Jun '12

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Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, Walaschek's Dream is an encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism and a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and the immortalizing power of art.

Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled "Alphabet I," which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup. This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli's encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism, where a motley crew of philosopher-peasants as well as historical luminaries like Arthur Schopenhauer, Vincent van Gogh, Viktor Shklovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Klee himself, and the titular footballer Eugene Walaschek all meet at the local tavern and debate the significance of Klee's work. Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, "Walaschek's Dream" is a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and the immortalizing power of art.

ISBN: 9781564787224

Dimensions: 203mm x 142mm x 22mm

Weight: 362g

176 pages