Descrizione

Autori Antoine Volodine
Editore New York Review Books

Titolo Completo: The Monroe Girls
Edizione Nuova Pubblicazione
Cod JAN26P601
Isbn 9781962770552

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Descrizione Inglese:
By (W) Antoine Volodine (Ct) Alyson WatersFor Readers Of Thomas Pynchon, A Conspiratorial Adventure Through A Bleak Future Where The Dead (And Their Political Factions) Never Really Die, From One Of France and Rsquo,S Most Visionary Writersbreton Has Seen Brighter Days. Now His Body Sags As He Pulls A Pair Of Binoculars To His Withered Face. He Peers From The Grimy Window Of A Near-Empty Psychiatric Compound and Mdash,One Of The Last Buildings Standing After An Unspecified Disaster and Mdash,Spying Rue Dellwo Below, Dreary In Perpetual Rain. Into This World Of Devastation Drop The Monroe Girls and Mdash,Paramilitaries Trained In The and Ldquo,Dark Place and Rdquo, By Monroe, A Dissident Executed Long Ago. Their Mission To Revamp The Party Is Futile In This Bleak, Decaying World. Breton, Our Schizophrenic Narrator, Is Tasked (And Tortured) By What Remains Of The Party To Locate And Identify The Monroe Girls Using Special Optical Equipment And His Powers Of Extrasensory Perception. Breton and Rsquo,S Journey Through A Bardo-Like, Hostile Labyrinth Invites Us Into A Sensual Swirl Of Bodily Decay, Political Acquiescence, And Civilizational Collapse. In This Derelict Setting, Volodine Ruminates On Identity, Surveillance, Life After Death, And Love (Which, Alas, Does Not Conquer All). An Urgent And Blistering Tale, Beautifully Rendered With Volodine and Rsquo,S Distinct Pathos And Humor.One Of The Most Important Figures In France and Rsquo,S Contemporary Literary Landscape, Antoine Volodine Writes Under At Least Four Heteronyms, Including Lutz Bassmann And Manuela Draeger. He Taught Russian In French Secondary Schools For Many Years Before His Debut Novel, Comparative Biography Of Jorian Murgrave, Appeared In France In 1985. Most Of His Prolific Output, Including The Monroe Girls, Take Place In A Post-Apocalyptic World Where Members Of The and Ldquo,Post-Exoticism and Rdquo, Writing Movement Have Been Arrested For Their Subversive Literary Efforts.Alyson Waters Is A Prize-Winning Translator Of French And Francophone Literary Fiction, Art History, Philosophy, And Children’s Books. She Has Translated Works By Albert Cossery, Louis Aragon, Ren and Eacute, Belletto, Jean Giono, Eric Chevillard, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Emmanuel Bove, Claude Ponti, And Many Others. She Has Received A National Endowment For The Arts Translation Fellowship, A Pen Translation Fund Grant, And Was Awarded The French-American Foundation Translation Prize Twice. She Taught Literary Translation At Yale For Three Decades And Currently Teaches At Columbia University. She Lives In Brooklyn.Restrictions: World

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