I enjoyed The Capital so much A major book about coincidences, of linked and overlapping meanings This is a deeply humane novel, a novel for adults. It carries the wisdom and weight and weariness of late middle age. Menasse writes not about the way things should be but about the way things are, rare enough these days/5(62). · The Capital by Robert Menasse, translated by Jamie Bulloch, is published by MacLehose (RRP £15). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £15, online Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. FICTION. Author: Robert Menasse. Translator: Jamie Bulloch. New York. Liveright. pages. We meet The Capital’ s main characters in a central Brussels plaza where they are trying to get out of the way of a runaway pig creating havoc. Pigs are also at Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Book Summary. Winner of the German Book Prize, The Capital is an "omniscient, almost Balzac-ian" (Steven Erlanger, New York Times) panorama of splintered Europe. Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an. But no major writer had ever thought to do a novel about it — until Robert Menasse. The Viennese author moved to Brussels in to start working on what would become "The Capital," which won this year's German Book Prize — the nation's equivalent to the Prix Goncourt and the Man Booker — earlier this month. A highly inventive novel of ideas written in the rich European tradition, The Capital transports readers to the cobblestoned streets of twenty-first-century Brussels. Chosen as the European Union's symbolic capital in , this elusive setting has never been examined so intricately in literature. Translated with zest, pace and wit (Spectator) by Jamie Bulloch, Robert Menasse's The Capital.
The Capital by Robert Menasse, translated by Jamie Bulloch, is published by MacLehose (RRP £15). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £15, online. The Capital is a mischievous yet profound story about storytelling; about the art of shaping a narrative by finding resonances in the messy stuff of life. () Among other things, The Capital is a bold novelisation of Mr Habermas’s thinking about Europe. () The novel also captures the Habermasian warning that forgoing a pan-European narrative in this way leaves the emotive, storytelling side of European politics to blood-and-soil nationalists ..). I enjoyed The Capital so much A major book about coincidences, of linked and overlapping meanings This is a deeply humane novel, a novel for adults. It carries the wisdom and weight and weariness of late middle age. Menasse writes not about the way things should be but about the way things are, rare enough these days.
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