Our Share of Time - Couverture souple

Navarre, Yves

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0916583287 ISBN 13 : 9780916583286

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 1988

Synopsis

When it happens you don't expect it. You don't expect anything anymore. You lose your head for just a second and someone walks into your life, turns it upside down, tenderly, brutally, making a place for himself. Even before anything has happened it's already too late. You can't tell who is choosing whom, when, how, why. You only know these things later when everything is over and each person holds the other accountable for what has gone on. These opening lines from Our Share of Time begin a story concerned with the impossibility of sustaining love, or even understanding how and why it started. In this diarylike reminiscence, Pierre Forgue, a Parisian school teacher, offers us an apologia for his past and present life as well as a bleak picture of his future. Moving between his Paris apartment and his summer cottage in Peyroc, he vacillates between love and indifference, between Duck (the young man who casually enters his life and who callously departs) and the rest of the world, between lost youth and approaching middle age.His is the universal midlife crisis accentuated by the presence of Duck, the now-you-see-him-now-you-don't young and handsome intruder who brings both happiness and misery. This novel, about the difficulty of maintaining lasting relationships, succeeds by the painstaking honesty with which Yves Navarre records events whose ending is happy, painful, and sweet.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Yves Navarre's (1940-1994) first book, Lady Black, was published in 1971. During a prolific career, he published over a dozen novels, including Cronus's Children, The Zoological Garden, and Our Share of Time, which is published by Dalkey Archive Press. In 1980, he won France's most esteemed literary award, the Prix Goncourt.

In addition to several of Jacques Roubaud s books, Dominic Di Bernardi has translated works by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Muriel Cerf, Claude Ollier, and Patrick Grainville, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0916583287
• ISBN 13: 9780916583286
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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