System of Vienna Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov - in

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

and love for the people and place that will be destroyed

and so deeply poignant on the other

" --Teofil Pančić

and uncertainty is portrayed

System of Vienna Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov - inby 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