Room - Couverture souple

Shimoni, Youval

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628971339 ISBN 13 : 9781628971330

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016

Synopsis

A monumental, subversive classic of twentieth-century literature jailed upon its publication as one of the finest novels ever written in Hebrew, A Room is in the league of Gravity's Rainbow or The Recognitions:

A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna's Lamentation of Christ. A scripture (with commentary!) tells of a mythical nation uniting to construct a monument to their deity, then falling into chaos when no one can agree on its precise form or dimensions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Youval Shimoni was born in Jerusalem in 1955. He studied cinema at Tel Aviv University and first began publishing fiction in 1990. Shimoni is a senior editor at Am Oved publishers; he also teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv and Haifa Universities. He has been awarded the Bernstein Prize (2001) and the Prime Minister's Prize (2005).

Born in South Africa, Michael Sharp currently lives in Israel where he produces radio programs for Israel Radio. A Room is his first translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628971339
• ISBN 13: 9781628971330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible