Atlas of an Anxious Man

“It is an evocative and haunting book, a masterpiece of multiple genres by a writer unlike any other.” -- A. M. Kaempf, Northwest Review of Books


“A work of the most subtle searching, the most varied sensual experiences and humbleness before human existence.” -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The ‘Atlas of a Fearful Man’ is a unique story, divided into seven episodes and crossing continents, times and spiritual landscapes. Each time, the narrator pauses for breath, and then begins again: “I saw…” – before leading his audience into the furthest and the closest places on earth: into the shadow of Java's volcanoes, the rapids of the Mekong and the Danube, across the high arctic pack-ice and over the Himalayas’ mountain passes, and all the way to the magical islands of the South Sea.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 25.10.2012
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-062951-7
  • 464 Pages
  • Author: Christoph Ransmayr
Atlas of an Anxious Man
Christoph Ransmayr Atlas of an Anxious Man
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Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr  was born in 1954 in Wels/Upper Austria and now lives again in Vienna after years in Ireland and traveling. Alongside popular and internationally acclaimed novels such as  The Terrors of Ice and Darkness ,  The Last World ,  Morbus Kitahara ,  The Flying Mountain ,  Cox or The Course of Time ,  The Lockmaster. A Short Story of Killing  and the  Atlas of an Anxious Man  he publishes experiments with narrative forms, like  Under a Sky of Sugar. Ballads and Poems which has recently been sold to Seagull Books. Among other literary awards, he has received the Friedrich Hölderlin, the Franz Kafka, and the Bert Brecht prizes, the Kleist Prize, the Premio Mondello, and, together with Salman Rushdie, the European Union's Prix Aristeion, as well as the Prix du meilleur livre étranger and the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne.