When the Time Comes by Josef Winkler
Brand: Contra Mundum Press
Product Description
In the years before the Second World War a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later in Hitlers trenches he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer screaming in agony presided over by Satan who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary where the two streets in the crossshaped village meet. Thus begins When the Time Comes Josef Winklers chronicle of life in rural Austria written in the form of a necrology tracing the benighted destiny of a community through its suicides and the tragic deaths that befall it punctuated by the invocation of the bonecooker whose viscous brew is painted on the faces of the work horses and the haunting stanzas of Baudelaires Litanies of Satan. In a hypnotic incantatory prose reminiscent at times of Homer at times of the Catholic liturgy at times of the naming of the generations in the book of Genesis When the Time Comes is a ruthless dissection of the pastoral novel laying bare the corruption that lies in its heart. Writing in the vein of his compatriots Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek but perhaps going further in his relentlessness and aesthetic radicalism Josef Winkler is one of the most significant European authors working today. show more
Condition : New
Author : Josef Winkler
Weight : 356
Publisher : Contra Mundum Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781940625010
ISBN10 : 1940625017
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20190418
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : 228 Pages Illustrations
Dimensions : 203 X 127 X 12