Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections "There is in Machado’s prose

"There is in Machado’s prose a playfulness that teases the reader

which promotes art as a form of knowledge

Klaus Merz

but the reality is well known—the poets and writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak instead of humiliation

An account of seemingly trivial events—a wedding between two respected families

Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections "There is in Machado’s proseScrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zndel: a philosopher, a wanna be writer; scattered, self conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zndels Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if its coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks