System of Vienna Fiction As Majnun floats through the

As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics

edited the São Paulo newspaper Jornal da Tarde

" --Teofil Pančić

"a whimsical and sensual collection

and uncertainty is portrayed

System of Vienna Fiction As Majnun floats through theby 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