{"product_id":"traumnovelle-9781916541146","title":"Traumnovelle","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Erratum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500374524178,"sku":"9781916541146","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34bd2885-f4df-4727-b67b-6b8349628c05.jpg?v=1753190586","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/traumnovelle-9781916541146","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}