Moving Parts - Couverture rigide

Tulli, Magdalena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0976395002 ISBN 13 : 9780976395003

Editeur : Archipelago Books, 2005

Synopsis

A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer pays no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages, watching helplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and start rival stories against his will. This brilliant, wryly humorous work tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequate means that language and storytelling offer for describing and understanding it. Yet it does so in Tulli's characteristically clear, concrete, gorgeous prose. This extraordinary work, unique in both form and message, shows a European master at the height of her powers and constitutes a major contribution to a new century of European literature. A wildly inventive page-turner.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Magdalena Tulli's other novels include Dreams and Stones and Moving Parts (Archipelago Books). Dreams and Stones won Poland's Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1995, while Moving Parts was nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Flaw has been short-listed for the 2007 Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award. Tulli also works as a translator and has translated the works of Proust and Calvino into Polish. She lives in Warsaw.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Archipelago Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0976395002
• ISBN 13: 9780976395003
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 133
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible