I and I
Philip Oltermann: Thomas Glavinic, 14 August 2008
Night Work
by Thomas Glavinic, translated by John Brownjohn.
Canongate, 384 pp., £8.99, July 2008,978 1 84767 051 9 Show More
by Thomas Glavinic, translated by John Brownjohn.
Canongate, 384 pp., £8.99, July 2008,
“... The opening scene of Night Work, Thomas Glavinic’s Viennese novel, recalls something Karl Kraus said about the city in 1914: Vienna was a ‘Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs’, an experimental station for the apocalypse. Jonas, Glavinic’s protagonist, gets up one morning and switches on the TV ... ”