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02458aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 6AA8DCE4462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 160617t20162016enkab 000 f eng d 020 $a 9780957121362 020 $a 0957121369 035 $a (OCoLC)951925742 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d BUF $d UKMGB $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-cs--- $a e-cs--- 050 4 $a PR9619.3.A687 $b C66 2016 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Armand, Louis, $d 1972- $e author. 245 14 $a The combinations / $c Louis Armand. 264 1 $a London : $b Equus Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xxxviii, 888 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "An unprecedented 'work of attempted fiction' that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility & chaos that is Prague (a.k.a. Golem City ), across the 20th-century and before/after. Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D's (e.g. John) and K's (e.g. Edward) of the 16th/17th centuries (who attempted and failed to turn lead into gold), and the infamous H's (e.g. Adolf, e.g. Reinhard) of the 20th (who attempted and succeeded in turning flesh into soap). Armand's prose weaves together the City's thousand-and- one fascinating tales with a deeply personal account of one lost soul set adrift amid the early-90s' awakening from the nightmare that was the previous half-century of communist Mitteleuropa. The Combinations is a text whose 1) erudition dazzles, 2) structure humbles, 3) monotony never bores, 4) humour disarms, 5) relentlessness overwhelms, 6) storytelling captivates, 7) poignancy remains poignant, and 8) style simply never exhausts itself. Your move, Reader"--description from publisher's website, viewed 1 November 2017. 561 1 $3 Copy 1 $a From the collection of Andrei Codrescu. $5 IaU 650 0 $a Experimental fiction. 651 0 $a Prague (Czech Republic) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Experimental fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918425 651 7 $a Czech Republic $z Prague. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205207 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 700 1 $3 Copy 1 $a Codrescu, Andrei, $d 1946-, $e former owner. $5 IaU 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191120040536.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6AA8DCE4462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search