Daniel Bowles, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus Giroux. ISBN The “imperium” of the title refers, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to Germany at the “global zenith of [its] influence” around the beginning of the last century when it actually boasted colonies, including this one in the South Seas. It also suggests the heavenly utopia Kracht’s hero aspires to create. · “Christian Kracht's Imperium is a Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas.A strange, Mephistophelian novel, Kracht's book is also, by several units of some arcane nautical measurement, one of the slyest and most original works of the last several years. · Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” —Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle “Christian Kracht's Imperium is a Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas A strange, Mephistophelian novel, Kracht's book is also, by several units of some arcane nautical measurement Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas Christian Kracht, trans. from the German by Daniel Bowles. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22 (p) ISBN ARTICLES. Imperium: a Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht (translated by Daniel Bowles) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. Published July, ISBN In , August Engelhardt left Germany for the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, in what was then German New Guinea. He was in his mid-twenties, and determined to escape what he. Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time." —Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle "Christian Kracht's Imperium is a Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas A strange, Mephistophelian novel, Kracht's book is also, by several units of some arcane nautical measurement.
“Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle “Christian Kracht's Imperium is a Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas A strange, Mephistophelian novel, Kracht's book is also, by several units of some arcane nautical measurement, one of the slyest and most original works of the last several years. “Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” — Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle “Christian Kracht's Imperium is a Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas.A strange, Mephistophelian novel, Kracht's book is also, by several units of some arcane nautical measurement, one of the slyest and most original works of the last several years. Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a sympathetic outsider—mocked, misunderstood, physically assaulted—and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage.
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