System of Vienna Fiction and so deeply poignant on

and so deeply poignant on the other

" --Teofil Pančić

and love for the people and place that will be destroyed

"a whimsical and sensual collection

edited the São Paulo newspaper Jornal da Tarde

System of Vienna Fiction and so deeply poignant onby Gert Jonke translated by Vincent Kling Half philosopher and half clown prince, Gert Jonke is Austria's comic gift to contemporary fiction. An astonishing and fantastical autobiographical novelreminiscent of Italo Calvino and Laurence SterneThe System of Vienna details Jonkes travels through Vienna by streetcar, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progressesand meanwhile moving not just from trolley stop to trolley