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Ellis Island - Couverture souple

Perec, Georges

 
9780811229548: Ellis Island
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0811229548 ISBN 13 : 9780811229548
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021

Synopsis

Georges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: "To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere. Ellis Island belongs to all those whom intolerance and poverty have driven and still drive from the land where they grew up." Ellis Island is a slender Perec masterwork, unique among his many singular works.

The acclaimed poet and scholar Mónica de la Torre contributes an afterword that keeps Perec's writing front and center while situating Ellis Island in the context of America's current fierce battles over immigration.

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À propos des auteurs

The many beautiful, complex books of the acclaimed French author Georges Perec (1936-1982) include Life: A User's Manual, A Void, W: Or the Memory of Childhood, Things: A Story of the Sixties, A Man Asleep, and 53 Days.

Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was born in New York. A founding editor of the literary journal Locus Solus, he wrote novels, poetry, short fiction, essays, and translations from the French. His many books include Cigarettes (1987), The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (1999), and The Human Country (2002).

Mónica de la Torre's is the author of Repetition Nineteen; she teaches at Brooklyn College.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811229548
ISBN 13 
9780811229548
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
64
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