Alp / William Hjortsberg

The travel brochures were so colourful and glossy, the world seemed so promising. How could Howard have guessed, as he posed for his passport photos, that within two short weeks he would get lost in a blizzard, fall off an alpine precipice and end up a prisoner of a cannibal dwarf?

ALP is a fairy tale, 1971. What Donald Barthelme did with Snow White, what Terry Southern did with Candide, William Hjortsberg does with Heidi and the picture postcards of the snowy Swiss Alps.