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A city with deteriorating houses. A pristine house seemingly withoutinhabitants. Inhabitants of a world no longer human. In a remarkable collectionof stories Ernst Wilhelm Handler conducts us into a world where nothing isquite as we know it or quite what we might expect. In these stories Handlercreates a series of possible worlds some resembling those we experience on anregular basis some existing in startling opposition to everyday life. Amongthem Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall Austria during WorldWar II a dystopia of a dyslexic matriarchal society and a world where statesof affairs come into being through writing. Narrated by businessmen aphilosopher a prostitute who has undergone a sex change an old womansuffering from Alzheimers disease and disembodied units of consciousnessthese stories unfold through experiments of thought language and voice thatillustrate reflect on and reconfigure the philosophical problems that shapeand unsettle our lives.First published in German in 1995 City with Houses announced the arrival of amajor talent and has since been followed by two related volumes. At home inmany spheres business dealings academic abstractions nittygritty romancepractical hells Handler writes as a literary outsider a businessmanintimately familiar with contemporary philosophical and scientific movements.This unique perspective whether applied to the activities of a broker theparadoxes of a diarist the sexual education of a history student or postapocalyptic children shakes us from the slumber of our own houses and wakesus to the realities the possibilities and the wonders of our day. «
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