Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, Gustave Flaubert begins his first novel, "Madame Bovary," which influences the minor French novelist Edouard Dujardin, whose novel is read by James Joyce, whose own novel "Ulysses "will move the Italian novelist Italo Sveno, and later Gertrude Stein, in radical ways. This carousel of influence shows how we devour novels in translation, while often believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. "The Delighted States "attempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: "The Delighted States." As a companion, this book comes with a new translation into English of Vladimir Nabokov's "Mademoiselle O."
Автор: Thirlwell Adam Название: Lurid & Cute ISBN: 1250081661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250081667 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"The narrator of Lurid & Cute] may be Thirlwell's best creation yet."--Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is Technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good."--Joshua Ferris
Lurid & Cute takes place in the suburbs of a giant city, where our narrator lives at home with his parents, together with his wife and dog. He has had a good education and, until recently, a good job. But then the lurid overtakes him--and whether this transformation is caused by our hero's present unemployment, or his feelings for a girl who is not his wife, or the return of his old friend Hiro, it's hard to say. What's definite is that it sets off a chain of events that feels, to those inside it, narcotic and neurotic, like one long and terrible descent--complete with lies, deceit, and chicanery: one orgy, one brothel, and a series of firearms disputes.
Автор: Thirlwell,Adam Название: Multiples ISBN: 1846275385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846275388 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an unknown story into English, which a second writer then translates into a different language, and a third translates back into English, and so on, down the line. As the stories are told and retold, out of English and in again, they are transformed, twisted and turned into something new. Featuring an all-star international line-up of writers from Zadie Smith to Alejandro Zambra, via Jeffrey Eugenides, Laurent Binet, Javier Marias, David Mitchell, Colm Toibin, Etgar Keret, and Sheila Heti, this collection is pure literary entertainment.
Playful, provocative and wilfully inventive, Multiples asks fascinating questions about the relationship between a translation and a version, about the art of storytelling, and about the way that our individual linguistic choices reflect our shared cultural prejudices. Here, we see not so much what is lost in translation, but what is found.
Автор: Thirlwell, Adam Название: Politics ISBN: 0099459027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099459026 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: `In case you had not noticed,` writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics, `in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR.
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