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Author Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961, author.

Title The country road : stories / Regina Ullmann ; translated from the German by Kurt Beals.

Publication Info. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F ULLMANN REGINA    Check Shelf
Description 147 pages ; 21 cm.
Series New Directions paperbook ; 1298
New Directions paperbook ; 1298.
Note "Originally published as Die Landstrasse in 1921" -- Verso title page.
Contents The country road -- Old tavern sign --- The mouse -- The old man -- Strawberries -- The hot air balloon -- The Christmas visit -- Retold -- The hunchback -- Susanna -- The girl.
Summary "Admired by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, Swiss author Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes. The stories in this volume are largely set in the Alpine countryside, and though resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter, Ullmann's distinctive, otherworldly voice has inspired comparisons to her contemporary Robert Walser. In her stories, the archaic and the modern collide. In one tale, a young woman on an exhausting country walk recoils at a passing bicyclist, but accepts a ride from a wagon, taking her seat on a trunk with a snake coiled inside. As Ullmann writes, "sometimes the whole world appears to be painted on porcelain, right down to the dangerous cracks." This delicate but brittle beauty, with its ominous undertones, gives Regina Ullmann her unique voice" -- Provided by publisher.
Language Translated from the German.
Subject Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961 -- Translations into English.
Ullmann, Regina, 1884-1961. (OCoLC)fst01852145
Genre/Form Short stories.
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Added Author Beals, Kurt, translator.
Added Title Landstrasse. English
ISBN 9780811220057 paperback
0811220052 paperback
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