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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Spiel : A Novel
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'Berlin, New Years Eve. A young architect abandons the apocalyptic heat of a Melbourne summer for the streets his grandfather once walked. Barely off the train, a blind woman invites him to play a game. The Spiel has begun. When the pair narrowly escape a bomb blast the woman disappears, leaving only the name that has haunted the architect since childhood - Rosa Stumm. But who is Rosa Stumm?' (UWA Publishing website)

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    y separately published work icon Spiel : A Novel and Animating Objects of Desire : Exegetical Reflections David Sornig , Geelong : 2003 Z1636219 2003 single work thesis A contribution to and exploration of a long tradition in mythology and literature which articulates the human desire to manufacture an artefact that approximates and approaches the status of a living being. The novel contextualises this tradition in a narrative emerging from the post-Communist collapse of totalitarian power in Berlin. Geelong : 2003 pg. 1-370
    • Claremont, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2009 .
      Alternative title: Spiel
      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: To Toni, my first reader. To the memory of Peter Davis.
      • Epigraph: nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris O FORTUNA! (Carmina Burana)
      • Launched by Michael Meehan at Readings, Carlton, Victoria, 10 July 2009.
      ISBN: 9781921401251
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Australian Writers Anna Funder and David Sornig Cross Berlin Borders Gay Lynch , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Border Crossings 2016; (p. 153-166)

'To understand their characters' border crossings - historical, transnational, personal, physical and generic - Australian writers, Anna Funder and David Sornig researched their Berlin settings in situ, in literature and through writing praxis. Berlin crossings can be mapped from East to West and ideologically from left to right, through traumatic national history, biographies and authorial backstories.' (Introduction)
Untitled Lisa Bennett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 3 no. 1 2010;
— Review of Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
Untitled Adele Garnier , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Zeitschrift fur Australienstudien , no. 24 2010; (p. 141-143)
— Review of Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
Dream Quest Steven R. Luebke , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 114-115)
— Review of Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
A Healthy Diversity James Ley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 198 2010; (p. 34-38)
— Review of Figurehead Patrick Allington , 2009 single work novel ; Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel ; Swimming : A Novel Enza Gandolfo , 2004 single work novel ; The Danger Game Kalinda Ashton , 2008 single work novel
Untitled Tim Coronel , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 9 2009; (p. 37)
— Review of Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 September 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Jetty Road Cath Kenneally , 2009 single work novel ; Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
Past Burdens and Present Perplexities Ian McFarlane , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 November 2009; (p. 14)
— Review of 88 Lines About 44 Women Steven Lang , 2009 single work novel ; Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
Dark Wonderings Melinda Harvey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 59)
— Review of Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel
A Healthy Diversity James Ley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 198 2010; (p. 34-38)
— Review of Figurehead Patrick Allington , 2009 single work novel ; Spiel : A Novel David Sornig , 2003 single work novel ; Swimming : A Novel Enza Gandolfo , 2004 single work novel ; The Danger Game Kalinda Ashton , 2008 single work novel
Animating Objects of Desire : Exegetical Reflections David Sornig , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Spiel : A Novel and Animating Objects of Desire : Exegetical Reflections 2003; (p. 371-435)
Page Turners Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 359 2010; (p. 27)
Australian Writers Anna Funder and David Sornig Cross Berlin Borders Gay Lynch , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Border Crossings 2016; (p. 153-166)

'To understand their characters' border crossings - historical, transnational, personal, physical and generic - Australian writers, Anna Funder and David Sornig researched their Berlin settings in situ, in literature and through writing praxis. Berlin crossings can be mapped from East to West and ideologically from left to right, through traumatic national history, biographies and authorial backstories.' (Introduction)
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