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Century 21 Hardcover - 1992

by Ewa Kuryluk


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Century 21, a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and nineteenth-century romance, reportage and science fiction. At the book's core are two sisters, Ann Kar, a writer and survivor, and Carol, a suicidal artist. Considering herself a lunatic, Carol dreams about escaping from the earth to the moon (luna) and about the moon scholar, a lunar archeologist, who a thousand years after her death, while reconstructing terrestrial life, discovers the traces of her existence, falls in love with her, and begins to write about her - and his - erotic adventure. The result is a novel where Anna Karenina writes about Simone Weil, where Joseph Conrad meets Malcolm Lowry in Mexico, where Goethe presides over a literary institute made up of such members as Italo Svevo and Sextus Propertius, and where Djuna Barnes, dying from AIDS, visits Moses Maimonides in Japan. Ewa Kuryluk is fascinated by the repetition of the same situations and types, yet she's after her contemporaries who are starved for affection, lost in transit, ready to slip into somebody else's skin, and speaking in English, their second language, with a heavy accent. Century 21 is a profoundly moving and original work.

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  • Title Century 21
  • Author Ewa Kuryluk
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
  • Date 1992
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781564780126 / 1564780120
  • Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.35 x 1.15 in (23.67 x 16.13 x 2.92 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92013244
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ewa Kuryluk, a well-known Polish writer, artist, and art historian, has been living in Manhattan since 1981 and writing in English since 1982. She has been the recipient of the General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the Rockefeller Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in Japan. Her art work has been exhibited all over the world.

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