Animalia - Couverture souple

Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910695572 ISBN 13 : 9781910695579

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019

Synopsis

Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of war, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal industrialism reflecting an ancestral tendency to violence. Only the enchanted realm of childhood – that of Éléonore, the matriarch, and that of Jérôme, the last in the lineage – and the innate freedom of the animals offer any respite from the visible barbarity of humanity. Written in shifting prose that reflects the passage of time, Animalia is a powerful novel about man’s desire to conquer nature and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, born in 1981, is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He is the author of Pornographia [Porn], Le sel [Salt] and Une éducation libertine [A Libertine Education], which won the Goncourt First Novel Prize. His fourth novel, Animalia, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in Frank Wynne’s translation in 2019, was a TLS Book of the Year 2019 and won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. The Son of Man, first published by Gallimard in 2021, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2024. The Ravaged Night is his third book to appear in English.

Frank Wynne has translated works by authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Virginie Despentes and Mathias Enard. His work has earned many awards, including the IMPAC Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán and the International Dublin Literary Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910695572
• ISBN 13: 9781910695579
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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