A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (French Literature Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (French Literature Series) write by Hervé Le Tellier. This book was released on 2011-07-19. A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (French Literature Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Georges Perec’s Je me souviens, this delightful “novel” offers a thousand answers to the question, “What are you thinking?” (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: “Penny for them?”) The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
Upstaged (French Literature Series)
Upstaged (French Literature Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Upstaged (French Literature Series) write by Jacques Jouet. This book was released on 2011-06-14. Upstaged (French Literature Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stranger takes over a role in a play, leaving the rest of the cast to ponder his motives. Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer’s dressing-room door, just as he’s smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage . . . and, without thinking, he says,“Come in,” still in character. He quickly finds himself bound, gagged, and stripped by a man who appears to be his mirror image: costumed in the same wig, make-up, and clothes. Nicolas is powerless to prevent his usurper from going out and playing his role—with increasingly ridiculous consequences. Is this “upstaging” the act of a depraved amateur? Sabotage by a rival? A piece of guerrilla theater? A political statement? Whatever the cause, Nicolas and his fellow actors soon find their play—and their lives—making less and less sense, as the parts they play come under assault by this irrational intruder.
All Happy Families
All Happy Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Happy Families write by Herv# Le Tellier. This book was released on 2019-03-26. All Happy Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Hervé Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child—he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret, and sometimes even with humor.
Electrico W
Electrico W - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electrico W write by Herv# Le Tellier. This book was released on 2013-06-18. Electrico W available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life. Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer moves to Lisbon to escape from a failing affair. During his first assignment there, he teams up with Antonio—a photographer who has just returned to the city after a ten-year absence—to report for a French newspaper on an infamous serial killer’s trial. While walking around the city together to take notes and photos for the article, they visit the places of Antonio’s childhood, swap stories from their pasts, and confide in each other. But the more they learn about each other, the more their lives become inextricably intertwined. With a structure that parallels Homer’s Odyssey, Eléctrico W recounts their nine days together and the adventures that proliferate to form a constellation of successive ephemeral connections and relationships.
The End of Oulipo?
The End of Oulipo? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Oulipo? write by Lauren Elkin. This book was released on 2012-12-31. The End of Oulipo? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature. ,
