Dear Reader - Couverture souple

Fournel, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782275223 ISBN 13 : 9781782275220

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2018

Synopsis

Old schoolpublisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues

There's a lotof good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though -Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming backto him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle intothe end of his career, like it's a tipsy afternoon after a working lunch. Butthen he is confronted with a gift: a piece of technology, a gizmo, areader...

Dear Reader takes a wry,affectionate look at the world of publishing, books and authors, and is a veryfunny, moving story about the passing of the old and the excitement of the new.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Paul Fournel was born in 1947. He worked as a publisher with Ramsay & Seghers, and chaired the Société des gens de lettres. He was head of the Alliance Française in San Francisco, and a cultural attaché in Cairo and London. He now writes full time and cycles during the rest of the day. As a third full-time job, he is the Provisionally Definitive Secretary and President of the literary collective known as Oulipo, whose members have included George Perec and Italo Calvino, among many others.
He is also the author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, and poetry.

David Bellos is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. The biographer of Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary, Bellos is also a translator whose prizes include the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and the Man Booker International Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782275223
• ISBN 13: 9781782275220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible