Golden Age - Couverture souple

Ajvaz, Michal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564785785 ISBN 13 : 9781564785787

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be "The Book," a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in "The Book," adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even appending "footnotes" in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text-but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read "in order," and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1564785785
• ISBN 13: 9781564785787
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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