Description
| Product ID: | 9781681370903 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Pirate Who Does Not Know The Value Of Pi |
| Authors: | Author: Eugene Ostashevsky |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature. Winner of the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others. |
| Imprint Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Publisher Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-14 |
