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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a808.838 _bALT/TE
100			_aAltenberg, Peter.
245			_aTELEGRAMS OF THE SOUL : _bSelected Prose of Peter Altenberg _c/Translated from the German by Peter Wortsman.
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260			_aNew York _bArchipelago Books _c2005/01/01
300			_g146
500			_a“If it be permitted to speak of ‘love at first sound,’ then that’s what I experienced in my first encounter with this poet of prose.” So said Thomas Mann of the work of PeterAltenberg. A virtuoso Fin-de-Siècle Viennese innovator of what he called the “telegram style” of writing, Altenberg’s signature short prose straddles the line between the poetic and the prosaic, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire and the Feuilleton—a light journalistic reflection of his day—Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic that speaks with an eerie prescience to our own impatient time. Peter Wortsman’s new selection and translation reads like a sly lyrical wink from the turnof-the-century of the telegram to the turn-of-the-millennium of email.
650			_aLiterature Collection.
650			_aGerman miscellaneous writings
650			_a Literary Fiction.
650			_aGerman.
650			_aAltenberg, Peter 1859-1919.
650			_aAustrian writer and poet.
650			_aWortsman, Peter Translator.
700			_aWortsman, Peter (tr.)
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