Publisher's Synopsis
The "Review of Contemporary Fiction" proudly presents the English language-debut of Austrian master Gert Jonke's absurd, revealing, and groundbreaking autobiographical essay/novella "Individual and Metamorphosis." It tells the story of Jonke's life as a writer by citing, examining, and even rewriting texts by authors whose work inspired his own: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort?zar, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Ernst Jandl, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Robert Musil, Peter Weiss, and others.
