Alphabetical AfricaNew Directions Publishing, 1974 - 152 Seiten Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the "geoglyphic" African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll. |
Inhalt
I | 1 |
II | 3 |
III | 5 |
IV | 7 |
V | 10 |
VI | 12 |
VII | 14 |
VIII | 16 |
XXVIII | 74 |
XXIX | 81 |
XXX | 83 |
XXXI | 87 |
XXXII | 90 |
XXXIII | 93 |
XXXIV | 98 |
XXXV | 102 |
IX | 21 |
X | 25 |
XI | 27 |
XII | 29 |
XIII | 32 |
XIV | 34 |
XV | 37 |
XVI | 39 |
XVII | 42 |
XVIII | 44 |
XIX | 47 |
XX | 51 |
XXI | 55 |
XXII | 57 |
XXIII | 59 |
XXIV | 61 |
XXV | 62 |
XXVI | 64 |
XXVII | 65 |
XXXVI | 107 |
XXXVII | 110 |
XXXVIII | 113 |
XXXIX | 116 |
XL | 118 |
XLI | 120 |
XLII | 123 |
XLIII | 125 |
XLIV | 128 |
XLV | 132 |
XLVI | 135 |
XLVII | 138 |
XLVIII | 140 |
XLIX | 142 |
L | 145 |
LI | 148 |
LII | 151 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admit African army Afterward Ahhh airport Albert Alex and Allen Alex's Alfred Allen and Alva alligators ALPHABETICAL AFRICA Alva's amusements Angolan ant attacks antelopes Antibes arrival asked astonished attack auction Bantu beautiful bedroom bloody Bob and Boyd body bombs breasts bridge briefcase building bush bush jacket Butoni buying carrying chart claims click language color complains concealed containing convinced cosmetics couple crossing cuneiform deleted despite dictionary discover Dogon dollars door dress driver ants drum beats easily East Edna engineer erase Ethiopian Evelyn everything exist explain face fantastic feel female five foreign forgetfulness French Consul fucking Fulani future Gabon gestures gold hopes hundred invented inventory island Jacqueline Jebba jeweler journals jungle keeps kidnapping legs letters license looking mainland memory Nicholas oeuvres ornaments paper prick Quat's Queen Quat Shirley Swahili Tanzania tion Tiutu trinkets Walter Abish Zanzibar