Brutt, or the Sighing Gardens

by Friederike Mayröcker

br?tt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer--a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810119668
• ISBN13: 9780810119666
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"