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A German Picturesque

Jason Schwartz

Hardcover | Pages: 133 pages

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Original Title:	A German Picturesque
ISBN:	0679443320 (ISBN13: 9780679443322)
Edition Language:	English

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Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images--very like fantastic presences moving across glass--the twenty-one fictions in this startling debut collection seem both inexplicably familiar and like no writing we have seen before.
        The opening story leads us through a kaleidoscopic series of thoughts and memories around the act of writing a letter. Another, an intricately structured document of documents--household inventories, daily calendars, property deeds, an announcement--suggests the reality overflowing these mundane markers of our lives. Yet another traces the histories of five artifacts, while at the same time slyly assembling five miniature biographical portraits.
        Point of view is important: Elements of a house, for example, are seen from the perspective of an adult and of a child. And a wedding unfolds in conflicting word snapshots taken by the bride and groom and other guests, each providing a unique and sometimes disturbing impression.
        Phantasmagoric episodes of travel appear in several entries--an encyclopedic vision of a voyage at sea, a family's cross-country railroad trip through a timeless America, or the revealing journey to Spain by two elderly sisters.
        An exhilarating experiment in language and form, A German Picturesque is at once a challenge and a great pleasure to read.

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Title	:	A German Picturesque
Author	:	Jason Schwartz
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 133 pages
Published	:	June 30th 1998 by Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. The United States Of America

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Ratings: 3.98 From 53 Users | 17 Reviews

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I need to write a review of this book someday, but anybody who has not read A German Picturesque should do so soon. That is, anybody who demands the highest quality from their literature. Jason Schwartz continues to write short stories and publish them in a select few print periodicals. He is taxing and is the only contemporary writer who never disappoints me in any way. I would recommend this book to demanding readers who enjoy the intellect of Thomas Bernhard and Robert Walser but could do

Absolutely stellar, elliptical writing. The stories (such as they are) form long after the reading is over. Schwartz writes fever dreams.

What the fuck did I read ?

I can see what Schwartz is trying to do. It just didn't work for me. Dissonant sentences, that don't fit together, or might almost fit together through near-assonance such as "the purse is brown, its buckle undone". But then this is followed by the near gibberish of the next 2 sentences - "The necktie is red - blood red, if you like. And as for our speculation upon the hat?" So much of these stories read like lists: of clothes, of food, of furniture. I hesitate to say descriptive lists, though

I usually love short books with no narrative and no characters, but this collection left me feeling like I had just read a mover's list written by a poet. Lots of well-written descriptions of all the furniture in a room.