Slipping Westerns 1963) burst on the Italian

1963) burst on the Italian literary scene in 1992 with a picaresque novel about underwear: her own

A compelling meditation by one of Frisch's most original characters

Ignacy Karpowicz is a Polish writer and translator

and her lover (a masculine reflection of herself) in search of himself

and Fate in 1990

Slipping Westerns 1963) burst on the ItalianWhen Albert Jackson, a middle aged school teacher, catches a glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he cannot shake himself free of regret for a life all but squandered. In a blind and demented attempt to salvage something from his life, he sets off, half lucidly, on a libertine mission to reclaim life, to live it exclusively on his terms. But the wild and sinister crime he plots, so characterised by delusion, sets him on a