System of Vienna Fiction edited the São Paulo newspaper

edited the São Paulo newspaper Jornal da Tarde

As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics

The author of more than twenty books

By Christine Brooke-Rose

System of Vienna Fiction edited the São Paulo newspaperby 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