Dump This Book While You Still Can! (Stages)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803261861 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 177 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-23 |
| Language | : | French |
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Recommended for larger public libraries and all academic libraries. But erudition here does not get in the way of a strong narrative voice. . From Library Journal Benabou writes like Borges in love. This sweetly melancholic book is a real find for anyone who considers reading an activity and who rejoices in the fusion of high modernism, cabala, textual sleuthing, and a healthy dose of self-irony. Benabou is a cult author in France, where he is "definite provisional" secretary of the experimental writers' group OuLiPo (which has boasted Marcel Duchamp and Italo Calvino as members); American academic journals have devoted whole issues to him. This book is a chamber piece in four movements, framed by a clever overture and stunning coda and telling the story of a man obsessed with the meaning of an obscure text. Ulrich Baer, NYU Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. The book's title is a ruse: this is a playful, gentle, and wondrous tale of a writer in search of both tr
Dump This Book offers a new angle on the work of this original writer and an ironic perspective on the power of reading to produce meaning.. The narrator's tempestuous, increasingly obsessive relationship with the book he is determined to read, interwoven with the story of a real (but no less enigmatic) love affair, is, in its own challenging way, a charmed and charming, deeply provocative meditation upon reading and writing, and their inevitable discontents. In one of the most thought-provoking and wry books by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, readers become party to the dilemma of "challenging" literature in a singularly involving and amusing fashion. Opening a book that has mysteriously appeared amid the clutter of his desk, t
Fun Book For The Imperfect Reader Brenna Collins A slender tome with a title that veritably calls out from amongst the stacks, M. Benabou's Dump This Book While You Still Can! is a satisfyingly unusual work of prose. There is no traditional plot line to speak of. In fact, the entire book revolves around a singular setting - a bachelor's