{"product_id":"bottoms-dream-hardcover","title":"Bottom's Dream - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArno Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn E. Woods\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,\" says Bottom. \"I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,\" Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1970 \u003ci\u003eZettel's Traum\/Bottom's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e has been regarded as Arno Schimdt's magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature. Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E. Woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3.5 x 14 x 10.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67531716624633,"sku":"9781628971590","price":75.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SWFFSWNXdUtlMTM3M3RIZzdUb3Avdz09.webp?v=1793292635","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bottoms-dream-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}