Architect of Ruins

by Herbert Rosendorfer

The Architect of Ruins is considered one of the masterpieces of 20th century German fiction. An archetypal Dedalus novel with its literary game-playing and story-within-a-story technique. It has the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094662691X
• ISBN13: 9780946626915
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A Mobus Strip of a book

The author integrates the fantastical and historical in a dream on dream - layer on layer of a book. The character may have a dream - and in the dream a character will tell a story and in that story you encounter a mystery that envolves another dream - etc. etc. And you think that you will never find the thread to lead you home - yet all is kept meticulously on track from Faust to Alice in Wonderland - this book is engrossing and bewitching - I can honestly say that I have never encountered a more startlingly original book. It deserves the Daedalys Award it received. If you like David Foster Wallace, Madeline L'Engel, Lewis Carroll - you are assured of a satisfying and brilliant read.