The Author and Me
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Author
Contributions
- Jordan Stump - Translator
Publication
2014 - Dalkey Archive Press, USA
Language
English
Word Count
40,000 words, Guess
Page Count
160 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25649605M
- ISBN-139781628970753
- ISBN-101628970758
- OCLC Control Number879983466
- OCLC Control Numberauthorme0000chev
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014016358
Classifications
- LCCPQ2663.H432 A9813 2014
Description
A middle-aged man sits at a café table and begins to speak to a woman. He tells her about his life, about his opinions, and most particularly about his hatred for cauliflower gratin versus his love for trout amandine. Is this Éric Chevillard, vocalising his opinions through the medium of a first-person narrator? Do readers consistently mis-identify such protagonists with their authors? With his characteristic élan, extravagant humour, and perfectly pitched tone, Chevillard, one of France’s foremost writers, examines these most intricate of literary questions. Using footnotes and a variety of registers to investigate the relationships between reader, author and character, Chevillard also takes us on an adventure following an ant and an anteater, suggests a murder or two, and tries to persuade us of his, or possibly his character’s, gastronomic convictions.
Description
Translation from the French of L’Auteur et Moi published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 2012
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