The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi

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Publisher Description

An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature.

Winner of the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster


The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
March 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.9
MB

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