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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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060427 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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Titirangi/ATM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250504083214.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788086264585 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Titirangi/ATM |
| Transcribing agency |
Titirangi/ATM |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
rum |
| 044 ## - COUNTRY OF PUBLISHING/PRODUCING ENTITY CODE |
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| ISO country code |
RO |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Blecher, Max. |
| Dates associated with a name |
1909–1938 |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
Q660670 |
| Source of heading or term |
wikidata |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Reigh, Gabi. |
| Relator term |
translator |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Glăvan, Gabriela. |
| Relator term |
afterword |
| 222 #0 - KEY TITLE |
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| Key title |
The Illuminated Burrow |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Illuminated Burrow |
| Remainder of title |
: A Sanatorium Journal |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
/ Max Blecher |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Edition |
| 257 ## - COUNTRY OF PRODUCING ENTITY |
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| Country of producing entity |
CZ |
| 260 3# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Prague: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Twisted Spoon Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
166 pages, |
| Other physical details |
hardcover. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Max Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death the following spring, but its full version was only published posthumously in 1971. It was the final “novel” in what can be called a trilogy that includes Adventures in Immediate Irreality and Scarred Hearts, and like those, its imaginative distortion of real experiences is reminiscent of Bruno Schulz as well as the Surrealist autofiction of André Breton and Michel Leiris. Set in the sanatoria where Blecher received treatment for spinal tuberculosis, the ostensible narrator is forced to confront the power and limitations of memory as he attempts to capture the last moments of life as they pass “like ash ... through a sieve,” one final effort to reclaim the beauty of days spent straddling the boundary between waking and dreaming, encountering the marvelous both inside and outside the sanatorium's walls, inside and outside his very body. As his physical powers decline and he becomes permanently bedridden, the narrator’s life migrates to his inner consciousness, an “illuminated burrow” where reality is indistinguishable from fantasy, where the surreal and the mundane seamlessly fuse to enact the fears and fascinations elicited by the vibrant world that is gradually slipping away. |
| 650 01 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Sanatoriums |
| Form subdivision |
Diaries |
| General subdivision |
Fiction |
| 655 00 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Trăirism |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
Q7212536 |
| Source of term |
wikidata |
| 765 0# - ORIGINAL LANGUAGE ENTRY |
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| Main entry heading |
Vizuina luminată |
| 883 2# - METADATA PROVENANCE |
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| Creation process |
Manual |
| Assigning or generating agency |
NZ060427 |