Christoph Ransmayr

Consists of 60 vignettes from different places around the world, all (except one) visited by the author: Easter Island, India, Nepal, Bolivia, Iceland, Spain, Greece, Austria, Yemen, Australia, the Russian Arctic, and so on.

Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes

A man goes in search of the Roman poet Ovid, banished to the end of the world. He finds that Ovid's personality and stories have undergone a sea-change, and have fragmented themselves into lots of clues - people, bizarre events, odd stretches of landscape, and a story emerges.

A Novel with an Ovidian Repertory

The Last World

oder Der Lauf der Zeit. Roman

"The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.

The Flying Mountain

Aṭlas raǧul yatawaḫḫa ad-diqqa

Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten

Der Fallmeister

The Terrors of Ice and Darkness is the riveting account of a narrator obsessed with a certain Josef Mazzini, a young Italian "lost in the arctic winter of 1981" who is himself obsessed with the Imperial Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1873: "At first it was nothing more than a game to try to reduce the circumstances of his disappearance to some sort of explanation, any explanation. But every clue yielded a new unanswered question. Quite involuntarily I found myself taking one step after the other.... Cumulus clouds mirrored in a shop window became calving glaciers, patches of old snow in city parks became great floes of ice. The Arctic Ocean lay at my window. Much the same thing must have happened to Mazzini. Painstakingly retracing Mazzini's steps, the narrator simultaneously reconstructs the dramatic and fantastic story of the nineteenth-century journey, using actual letters and diaries of the members of that harrowing expedition. These documents--sometimes surprisingly poetic and moving--combine in the narrator's imagination to evoke as never before the awful beauty of the world's farthest northern reaches. -- Publisher's descriptions.

The Terrors of Ice and Darkness

In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary—a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows Ransmayr across the globe: from the shadow of Java's volcanoes to the rapids of the Mekong and Danube Rivers, from the drift ice of the Arctic Circle to Himalayan passes, and on to the disenchanted islands of the South Pacific. Ransmayr begins again and again with, “I saw. . .” recounting to the reader the stories of continents, eras, and landscapes of the soul. Like maps, the episodes come together to become a book of the world—one that charts the life and death, happiness and fate of people bound up in images of breathtaking beauty. “One of the German language's most gifted young novelists.”—Library Journal, onThe Terrors of Ice and Darkness

Atlas of an Anxious Man

جهان آخِر

Der Weg nach Surabaya.

Morbus Kitahara

Roman

Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis

Ho visto...: così iniziano tutti i settanta episodi di questa narrazione; lo sguardo partecipe e al tempo stesso distaccato di Ransmayr guida il lettore attraverso continenti, epoche, paesaggi del nostro pianeta vicini e lontanissimi, dai vulcani di Giava ai ghiacci del Polo Nord, dalle rapide del Mekong alla corrente del Danubio, dai passi dell’Himalaya all’isola degli ammutinati del Bounty. La potenza poetica della lingua, l’esattezza, l’attenzione estrema al dettaglio, lo sguardo imperturbabile fanno di questo libro un gioiello della letteratura e un imperdibile invito al viaggio.

Atlante di un uomo irrequieto

Rondom de wereld in zeventig reizen. Overal ziet de Oostenrijkse schrijver Christoph Ransmayr iets wat zijn nieuwsgierigheid wekt en zijn verbeelding prikkelt: van de wegroestende Russische oorlogsvloot in de haven van Moermansk tot de tropische stranden van Sri Lanka, van het afgelegen muiterseiland Pitcairn in de Stille Oceaan tot de drukke winkelstraten van Mexico-Stad en een hectische vismarkt in Jemen. `Ik zag _ met deze woorden opent de verteller telkens een nieuwe onvergetelijke ervaring. Hij voert zijn lezers mee naar wonderlijke ontmoetingen met uiteenlopende mensen als een Britse vogelaar die de hele Chinese Muur afwandelt, een uitgehongerde jonge straatmuzikante voor een juweliersetalage, drie monniken in een grot in de Himalaya, de kinderen met wie hij vanuit de bosjes een bronstige jonge olifant bespiedt, de Amerikaanse miljonair wiens droom het is de Noordpool tot zijn golfbaan te maken, de waardin van de eenzaamste herberg ter wereld en de gepensioneerde onderwijzer die in zijn eentje het joodse kerkhof van een Tsjechisch stadje weet te behoeden voor vernietiging. Elk van deze zeventig reisverhalen is een opzichzelfstaand literair meesterwerkje. Maar Ransmayr schreef niet zomaar het zoveelste reisboek: Atlas van een bange man is zowel een nietsontziend literair zelfportret als een even koene als adembenemende poging om de hele huidige wereld in woorden te vatten. Zoals vele landkaarten samen een atlas vormen, zo rijgen de afzonderlijke reizen zich in dit boek aaneen tot een indringende bespiegeling over leven en dood, over noodlot en geluk - tot een cartografie van de mensheid. Christoph Ransmayr werd in 1954 in het Oostenrijkse Roitham geboren. Hij studeerde filosofie en etnologie in Wenen, waarna hij als cultuurverslaggever en schrijver werkte voor verschillende tijdschriften en kranten. Vanaf begin jaren tachtig werkt hij aan zijn imposante oeuvre, dat in meer dan dertig talen wordt uitgegeven, en waarvoor hij verschillende prijzen ontving. `Christoph Ransmayr is een apocalypticus die het leven prijst. Marcel Reich-Ranicki `Poëtische beelden van tijdloze kracht en schoonheid. Dit boek is een meesterwerk. Neue Zürcher Zeitung `Even geniaal als zijn debuutroman De laatste wereld, waarmee hij wereldfaam verwierf. Die Welt

Atlas van een bange man

The world's most powerful man, Qiánlóng, emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenth-century clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that mark the passing of time as a child or a condemned man might experience it and that capture the many shades of happiness, suffering, love, and loss that come with that passing. Mystified by the rituals of a rigidly hierarchical society dominated by an unimaginably wealthy, god-like ruler, Cox musters all his expertise and ingenuity to satisfy the emperor's desires. Finally, Qiánlóng, also known by the moniker Lord of Time, requests the construction of a clock capable of measuring eternity--a perpetuum mobile. Seizing this chance to realize a long-held dream and honor the memory of his late beloved daughter, yet conscious of the impossibility of his task, Cox sets to work. As the court is suspended in a never-ending summer, festering with evil gossip about the monster these foreigners are creating, the Englishmen wonder if they will ever escape from their gilded cage. Richly imagined and recounted in vivid prose of extraordinary beauty, Cox, or The Course of Time is a stunning illustration of Christoph Ransmayr's talent for imbuing a captivating tale with intense metaphorical, indeed metaphysical force. More than a meeting of two men, one isolated by power, the other by grief, this is an exploration of mortality and a virtuoso demonstration that storytelling alone can truly conquer time.

Or the Course of Time

De Romein Maximus Cotta gaat op zoek naar zijn verbannen vriend, de dichter Ovidius, die door keizer Augustus in het jaar 8 na Chr. uit Rome is verjaagd.

De laatste wereld

roman. z nimez'koi pereklav Maksym Solodovnyk

Choroba kitachary

Matka lopun maailmaan

The novel is set just after World War Two, in a fictitious Germany. The Allies have decided to punish the country for Nazi war crimes by forcing it to develop back in to a pre-industrial society. All the achievements of technology - railways, streets, power, ships - have been destroyed or suspended, and in the village where The Kitahara Syndrome is set, villagers are forced to farm the land with primative tools and scavenge scrap yards. Memories of German war crimes are kept alive by bizarre rituals of remembrance: villagers are forced to dress as concentration camp inmates and act out the ceremonies of torture. This is the background to the story which focuses on three characters and the strange links that bind them.

Christoph Ransmayr

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