A Case of Curiosities - Couverture souple

Kurzweil, Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241132355 ISBN 13 : 9780241132357

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 1992

Synopsis

The curiosities sealed in a battered old case discovered at a Paris auction trace the bawdy, bizarre and suspenseful life of Claude Page, an 18th-century watchmaker whose manual dexterity destines him to become one of pre-industrial France's most gifted inventors.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.

Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places

Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241132355
• ISBN 13: 9780241132357
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible