{"product_id":"bottoms-dream","title":"Bottom's Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,\" says Bottom. \"I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,\" Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1970 \u003ci\u003eZettel's Traum\/Bottom's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e has been regarded as Arno Schimdt's magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature. Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E. Woods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841269870797,"sku":"9781628971590","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_7c6c194c-fdd8-4da2-9263-cf04724699d6.jpg?v=1792025807","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/bottoms-dream","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}