Working Knowledge - Couverture souple

Král, Petr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1901285731 ISBN 13 : 9781901285734

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2008

Synopsis

Over the course of one hundred brief and evanescent texts, Král brings together, as his compatriot Milan Kundera writes in his introduction, "this strange and beautiful existential encyclopaedia of the everyday". Whether describing twilight, a toothpick, the ritual of shaving or the act of going upstairs, his gaze is ingenuous, humble, and amazed. Mute objects, fleeting gestures, changeless passions: Král forces us to look at them anew. Each limpid, graceful essay is a brief voyage of discovery in which lowly objects and everyday actions, so often unobserved, are transfigured. Petr Král has the unerring ability to perceive, to catch the commonplace by surprise and with the unsettling clarity see beyond the everyday to the fabric of life beneath.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Petr Král, born in Czechoslovakia in 1941, was a member of the Czech surrealist movement alongside Vratislav Effenberger and the poet Vitezslav Nezval. He moved to Paris in 1968, where he has a considerable reputation as a poet and essayist. He now lives in Prague.

frank wynne is an award-winning translator
from French and Spanish. He has won
the IMPAC Award, the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize and the Scott Moncrieff Prize.
He has translated a number of Spanish and
Latin American authors, including Tomás Eloy
Martínez, Isabel Allende and Arturo Pérez-
Reverte.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1901285731
• ISBN 13: 9781901285734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible