Adventures In Immediate Irreality (13 page)

Translation copyright © 2015 by Michael Henry
Heim

Preface copyright © 2015 by Andrei Codrescu

Introduction copyright © 2011 by Herta Müller; translation
copyright © 2015 by Philip Boehm

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Blecher, Max, 1909–1938.

[Întâmplari în irealitatea imediata. English]

Adventures in immediate irreality / Max Blecher ;
translated by Michael Henry Heim ; with a preface by Andrei Codrescu. — First
edition.

pages cm

“Originally published in Romanian in 1936 as Întâmplari în
irealitatea imediata” — Verso title page.

In English; translated from Romanian.

ISBN 978-0-8112-1760-6

ISBN 978-0-8112-2472-7 (e-book)

I. Heim, Michael Henry, translator II. Codrescu, Andrei,
1946– writer of preface. III. Title.

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