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School for Atheists (Green Integer: ELEPHANT 53),New
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Published originally in 1972, The School for Atheists is one of the great works of fiction by the renowned German novelist Arno Schmidt (19141979), whose masterpiece is Zettels Traum, often compared to Joyces Finnegans Wake.Complex in plot, this later novel permits a more traditional reading than many of Schmidts works. In 2014 envoys of the nations great powers, including the matriarchal United States and the patriarchal China, hold a summit in the home of William T. Kolderup and his granddaughter Suse near the Danish border in the German town of Tellingstedt. In a story within a story Kolderup recalls his previous adventures with the mothertobe of Isis, the mandevouring American Secretary of State. But Schmidt takes this even further by presenting his fiction as drama, in which the ship that carries Kolderup and the mother of Isis is wrecked, testing the atheist stances of the characters. The wonder of this book, however, lies not in its hilarious plot, but in its amazing language, the fascinating typography, and the complex references to culturepopular and classicalfrom Jules Verne to William Shakespeare.Green Integer has previously published Schmidts Dialogs I and will publish the second volume of Dialogs later this year. Other books by Schmidt have been published by Dalkey Archive press, including the Collected Novellas, Collected Stories, Nobodaddys Children, and Two Novels (The Stony Heart and Boondocks/Moondocks), all translated by the awardwinning John E. Woods.
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