THE COMMUNICATING VESSELS

Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encount er that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have f or millennia, Mayröcker turned to her art to come to terms with the loss. Taking its cue from the André Breton's work of the same na me, The Communicating Vessels is an intensely personal book of mourning, comprised of 140 entries spanning the course of a year and exploring...[Llegir més]