Moving parts

Magdalena Tulli

earliest edition we have, 2006 Archipelago, 2017 paperback 144 pages

"A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story he neither controls nor understands; his characters multiply, go astray, and start rival stories of their own. The increasingly desperate narrator chases them through the streets, the underground, and across rooftops. This work tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequate means that language and storytelling offer for describing and u...

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Moving Parts paperback · 2017 · Archipelago · 144 pages · 9780914671848
Moving parts edition · 2005 · Archipelago Books · 133 pages

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