Daniel Canty

Wigrum (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Avasilichioaei, Oana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It's October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first and only encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum's bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects' museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum's impulse to collect them.
With its traces of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec, Daniel Canty's graphically arresting Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal.
Readers venturing into Sebastian Wigrum's cabinet of curiosities must abide only the following maxim: If I can believe all the stories I am told, so can you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780889227798
• Artikelnr.: 41329472

Autorenporträt

Daniel Canty was born in the suburb of Lachine, Quebec, and now lives in Montreal. His works circulate freely between literature and publishing, film and theatre, contemporary art and design. He is the author of a novel, Wigrum (La Peuplade, 2011; Talonbooks, 2013) and a history of automata in American literature, Êtres artificiels (Liber, 1997). He has devised three award-winning collaborative books: Cité selon (Le Quartanier, 2006), on the city; La Table des Matières (Le Quartanier, 2007), on eating; and Le Livre de Chevet (Le Quartanier, 2009), on sleeping. He has also translated books of poetry by Stephanie Bolster, Erin Moure, Michael Ondaatje, and Charles Simic. His recent exhibition, Bucky Ball (Artexte, 2014), constructed a memory theatre out of the ghost of Buckminster Fuller and the phantom landscape of Expo 67.

Canty studied literature and the philosophy of science in Montreal, publishing in Vancouver, and film in New York and Montreal. He teaches dramatic writing at L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada and event design at Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2014, he completed a six-month residency at the Studio du Québec in London. His website is danielcanty.com.

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet-artist, sound performer, and translator interested in polyphonic poetics, phonotophes (intermediary spaces between words, sounds, and images), and states of listening.

Her seven poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012, winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry), Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), and Eight Track (finalist for the 2020 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry). Avasilichioaei has translated eleven books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, including Bertrand Laverdure's Readopolis (Book*hug, 2017, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation) and Wigrum (runner-up for the 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada; winner of the 2012 Grafika Grand Prize for Typography). Other distinctions include the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.