β Scribed by Ann Quin
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"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father..." So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Against the backdrop of this gritty seaside town, an absurd and brutal plot develops involving three charactersβAlistair Berg, his father, and their mutual mistress. In his attempt to kill his father, Berg mutilates a ventriloquist's dummy, almost falls victim to his father's mistaken sexual advances, and is relentlessly taunted by a group of tramps. Disturbing and at times startlingly comic, Berg chronicles the interrelations among these three characters as they circle one another in an escalating spiral of violence.
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'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . ' So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it' (*The Guardian*). Alistair Berg, hair restorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will
'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . ' So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it' (*The Guardian*). Alistair Berg, hair restorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will
Dies ist die Fortsetzung der ErzΓ€hlung "Der Gebirgspass", die es als einzelnes Buch gibt. Die Fortsetzung ("Γberm Berg") ist zusammen mit dem ersten Teil ("Der Gebirgspass") in dem Buch "Γberlebende" enthalten.