My Beautiful Bus (French Literature Series) - Softcover

Jouet, Jacques

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ISBN 10: 1564787990 ISBN 13: 9781564787996

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

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At the wheel of his latest book, half-hidden by the driver, Basile, [Jacques Jouet] continues his quest for meaning through words and sounds . . . Points of departure and arrival are less important here than the journey itself, which invokes Perrault, Pascal, and the Abb Pr vost as the miles roll past. A defense of movement, be it physical or imagined, that fabulous movement which gave birth to the book. --Jessica Nelson

From the perspective of American readers, Jacques Jouet s writing is one of contemporary French literature s best-kept secrets . . . and the fault is ours rather than his, because Jouet himself has been producing smart, funny, vibrant, pungent literature in astonishing diversity and abundance for the last quarter century. --Warren Motte

"From the perspective of American readers, Jacques Jouet's writing is one of contemporary French literature's best-kept secrets . . . and the fault is ours rather than his, because Jouet himself has been producing smart, funny, vibrant, pungent literature in astonishing diversity and abundance for the last quarter century." --Warren Motte

"At the wheel of his latest book, half-hidden by the driver, Basile, [Jacques Jouet] continues his quest for meaning through words and sounds . . . Points of departure and arrival are less important here than the journey itself, which invokes Perrault, Pascal, and the Abbe Prevost as the miles roll past. A defense of movement, be it physical or imagined, that fabulous movement which gave birth to the book." --Jessica Nelson

Reseña del editor:

Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet in the late ’80s, his fictional reconstruction of the experience twenty years later focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous vehicle and its occupants. With detours through everything from Puss in Boots to Pascal’s maxims, we are introduced to each eccentric passenger as they climb aboard (one, for example, claims to have a corpse in his luggage), every character bringing us one step further into Jouet’s imaginative universe: their conversations, preoccupations, reactions, and possibilities taking their places as elements of a fiction in the narrator’s mind. In the final pages it becomes clear that the book itself is a sort of bus, boarded impulsively and with no fixed destination in mind, and that it has carried its readers to places they could not have imagined.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1564787990
• ISBN 13: 9781564787996
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130