{"product_id":"traumnovelle-paperback","title":"Traumnovelle - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrant Maierhofer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing Wittgenstein, Tarkovsky, and Arthur Schnitzler as models, Grant Maierhofer's \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e explores history as novel, spiraling out from the incident in 1978, when Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski unwittingly stuck his head inside the beam of the U-70 Synchrotron particle accelerator in Protvino. In short, recursive fragments, and interview transcripts, \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e offers a prismatic view extracted from real life, a sequence of text and images documenting an obsession. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grant Maierhofer may be our greatest living novelist of failure. Caught somewhere between the existential perplexities of Beckett and the ontological ones of Kafka-encompassing both of these things, somehow, in a voice that is plaintive, at times hilarious, and deeply American-he approaches something that is nearly religious in its intensity. \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e recasts the terrible story of Anatoli Bugorski, the Russian physicist who survived exposure to a proton beam from a particle accelerator, into something greater and stronger than mere tragedy, something radiant and profoundly illuminating. As with everything Maierhofer writes, it is a joy to be alive to read it.\" -- Matthew Specktor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tonically discomforting, brain-stretching, virtuosic reimagination of one man's unprecedented horror, rendered in ultravivid, surpassingly poetic prose, Grant Maierhofer's \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e is work of gutsy and triumphant originality.\" -- Garielle Lutz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I read Grant Maierhofer's philosophic, photonic \u003cem\u003eTraumnovelle\u003c\/em\u003e on a trans-oceanic flight, in a sheer dome of electromagnetic radiation, and it reminded me that each sentence is a dream hypothesis which, at its terminus, makes way for the next dream. We call a sequence of such luminous failures a galaxy, a line of inquiry, a novel, a life.\" -- Joyelle McSweeney\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 7.48 x 4.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158084157503,"sku":"9781916541146","price":29.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/MPtoAXGC_t9781916541146.webp?v=1776986821","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/traumnovelle-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}