To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize-winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Muller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Muller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Muller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience. Sure to thrill any fan of contemporary literature, Father's on the Phone with the Flies is an unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel.
- ISBN10 0857424726
- ISBN13 9780857424723
- Publish Date 22 June 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 October 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780857424723