Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Brummstein

#804
Title: The Brummstein
Author: Peter Adolphsen
Translator: Charlotte Barslund
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Year: 2003/2011
80 pages

Ebook.


"All around them, chemistry carried out its destructive business...."

A strange but engaging novella presented more or less in the language of a monograph on a scientific peculiarity, though the putative author knows more than he would have for complete verisimilitude. A useful structural comparator is Brooks's People of the Book, though here the point seems to be that human concerns and history are ephemeral and trivial, perhaps the opposite of Brooks's theme.

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