Lucifer Unemployed

by Aleksander Wat

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In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe.

The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810108402

ISBN13:9780810108400

Release Date:February 1990

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:123 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"

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