Parfums: A Catalogue of Remembered Smells - Rilegato

Claudel, Philippe

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0857052721 ISBN 13: 9780857052728

Casa editrice: MacLehose Press, 2014

Riassunto

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three elusive episodes we roam freely across the countryside of Lorraine, North-East France, from kitchen to farm to a lover's bed. Recognising the bittersweet nostalgia of a scent that slips away on the summer breeze, Claudel demonstrates again his impeccable grasp of the personal and the universal, interweaved with a rare self-deprecating charm. This is an evocative patchwork at once earthy and ethereal, erotic and heart-breaking. Claudel permits us a glimpse of moments that have driven him to delight or despair, creating through the fading aromas of the past fragments of humour, insight and quite intangible beauty.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Philippe Claudel is a university lecturer, novelist, film director and scriptwriter. He has written 14 novels that have been translated into various languages. He was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe in 1962 where he still lives. In 2009 his film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), which draws upon Claudel's eleven years teaching in prisons, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language film. Among his novels, Grey Souls won the Prix Renaudot in France, the American Gumshoe Award and the Swedish Martin Beck award. Brodeck's Report won the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

Euan Cameron is an editor and translator. Madeleine is his first novel. He worked in book publishing and as a literary journalist for many years before becoming a translator from French. His translations include works by Julien Green, Paul Morand, Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick Modiano and Philippe Claudel, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène
Némirovsky. He was appointed Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.

Euan Cameron is an editor and translator. Madeleine is his first novel. He worked in book publishing and as a literary journalist for many years before becoming a translator from French. His translations include works by Julien Green, Paul Morand, Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick Modiano and Philippe Claudel, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène
Némirovsky. He was appointed Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.

Contenuti:

Acacia. Garlic. Still. Girlfriends. Aftershave. Party-time. Mist. Cannabis. Cinnamon. Cellar. Hotel rooms. Coal. Carrion. Stubble. Cabbage. Cigar. Cemetery. Barber. Suntan lotion. Two-stroke. Communal showers. Clean sheets. Ironmonger. Church. Sleeping child. Stable. Ether. Campfire. Hay. Manure. Gauloises and Gitanes. Tar. Pink sandstone. Gym. Fried bacon. Vegetables. Childhood home. Death. Munster. Umbellifers. Fishing trousers. Swimming pool. Pissotières. Rainstorm. Fish. Ointment. Prison. Pullover. Mustiness. Waking up. Rivers. Classroom. Fir tree. Tomato sauce. Soap. Le sexe feminin. Sewage works. Earth. Lime tree. Coffee-roasting. Turtledoves. Old age. Travels.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: MacLehose Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857052721
• ISBN 13: 9780857052728
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176