"Tigor is an adventure novel, the minute details of which read real to the extremeothey appear as though they had been seen, touched, smelled, and tasted by the author himself. The reading offers a sheer delight." -Peter Handke "This novel is spectacularly successful in making sense of the beguiling and the contrary, in investigating and accommodating the mess of the modern world." -"The Times Literary Supplement" "It is encouraging, in what seems an increasingly anti-intellectual world, to find a novel which, while ...
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"Tigor is an adventure novel, the minute details of which read real to the extremeothey appear as though they had been seen, touched, smelled, and tasted by the author himself. The reading offers a sheer delight." -Peter Handke "This novel is spectacularly successful in making sense of the beguiling and the contrary, in investigating and accommodating the mess of the modern world." -"The Times Literary Supplement" "It is encouraging, in what seems an increasingly anti-intellectual world, to find a novel which, while making no apology for its own cleverness, wears its learning so lightly. A fitting homage to Beckett, one feels." -"The Times of London" "Jungk has created a Quixote of deep and heartbreaking humanity, whose terrible end shows up not the emptiness of belief but the savagery of ignorance." -"The Independent" Giacopo Tigor, the unassuming hero of Peter Stephan Jungkis novel, is a professor of mathematics, a proponent of Euclidian geometry reeling from a succession of intellectual defeats sustained at the hands of the advocates of chaos theory. Returning to his native city of Trieste for a conference, Tigor finds he is no longer able to face the banal constraints of the life he has made, and so he goes AWOL-first to Paris, where he fulfills a boyhood dream to work in the Odeon Theater as a stagehand. There he experiences a vision of Mount Ararat, holy mountain of the Armenian people, the landing point of Noah's Ark. His vision drives him onward to the East, where his flight evolves into a questoto find the remains of the Ark. "Tigor" is an inspired marriage of the mysterious and the seemingly mundane, of gentleness and drama, order and chaos. This utterly singular work reimagines the novel form, and lingers in the readeris mind long after it has been set aside."
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Add this copy of Tigor to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press, LLC.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
Add this copy of Tigor to cart. $9.01, very good condition, Sold by More Than Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press (NY).
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. CB3-An advance uncorrected manuscript paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling, crease, and stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Intense and fraught with danger, Tigor is the search for meaning in a suddenly meaningless life. 9"x6", 217 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Add this copy of Tigor to cart. $14.44, very good condition, Sold by Chris Korczak, Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Easthampton, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket present, with no significant shelfwear. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket protected by a removable clear jacket cover. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
Add this copy of Tigor to cart. $39.80, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press.
Add this copy of Tigor to cart. $65.00, very good condition, Sold by JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BURLINGTON, WI, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by HANDSEL BOOKS/ OTHER PRESS.
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NEAR FINE IN GRAY PRINTED WRAPS. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MICHAEL HOFMANN AND INSCRIBED ON DEDICATION PAGE BY AUTHOR. GRAY PRINTED WRAPS WITH A TRACE OF OCCASIONAL AGE BUT IS OTHERWISE A FINE CLEAN, TIGHT, UNMARKED COPY. THE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION APEARS WITH THE USE OF "&" TO INTEGRATE THE INSCRIBEE INTO THE PRINTED DEDICATION.
