The Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel (French Literature Series) - Softcover

Rolin, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564786323 ISBN 13: 9781564786326

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Jean Rolin Louise Rogers Lalaurie

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Críticas:

Like Sebald, Rolin is a master of sentence structure, honing his syntax with considerable elegance, allowing his sentences to reach beyond normative bounds in an effort to bring forth meaning more fully. He is not afraid to loiter here and there, taking his time to develop ideas he finds upon his way, as it were. Though the radiator hose explodes, there is no explosion of truth. Instead, through a deftly ironical and dispassionate gaze, Jean Rolin focuses most closely upon small things, the very ones which in the aggregate compose the fabric of existence in the first world, in the third world, or indeed in a fictional world.

Jean Rolin is a companion with whom one can walk as one hears his clear and dispassionate voice, his wry humor . . . One day I ll have to tell this story, the story of my heroic death and the ensuing revolution, he announces on the final page. I look forward to this. --Christian Authier

Reseña del editor:

In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin’s journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s—but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin’s sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world’s. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1564786323
• ISBN 13: 9781564786326
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168