This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary _Views of Jeopardy_ appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict compression of
CoDex 1962
✍ Scribed by Sjón
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;MCD/Farrar
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 331 KB
- Edition
- First American edition
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Spanning eras, continents, genres,Codex 1962 --twenty years in the making--is Sjón's epic three-part masterpiece
Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one of the world's most interesting writers. But what the world has never been able to read is his great trilogy of novels, known collectively as CoDex 1962 --now finally complete.
Josef Löwe, the narrator, was born in 1962--the same year, the same moment even, as Sjón. Josef's story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo Löwe--a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: Löwe arrives in Iceland with the clay-baby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery--but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to...
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