System of Vienna Fiction and so deeply poignant on

and so deeply poignant on the other

by Vladimir Nabokov - in which the narrator finds all appearances to be deceptive and every revelation is calculated to raise more questions than it answers" - Wall Street Journal

By Christine Brooke-Rose

edited the São Paulo newspaper Jornal da Tarde

The author of more than twenty books

System of Vienna Fiction and so deeply poignant onby Gert Jonke translated by Vincent Kling Half philosopher and half clown prince, Gert Jonke is Austria's comic gift to contemporary fiction. An astonishing and fantastical autobiographical novelreminiscent of Italo Calvino and Laurence SterneThe System of Vienna details Jonkes travels through Vienna by streetcar, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progressesand meanwhile moving not just from trolley stop to trolley