Lucifer Unemployed

by Aleksander Wat

Book Overview

In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe.

The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810108402
• ISBN13: 9780810108400
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"