Only Joking - Brossura

Gabriel Josipovici

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0956107362 ISBN 13: 9780956107367

Casa editrice: CB Editions, 2010

Riassunto

I do not think there is any writer working in English at present who is more subtly inventive or more original than Gabriel Josipovici.
Tales from the Reading Room

You know what the secret of being a good clown is, Elspeth? he asks.
No, she says. You ve told me but I ve forgotten.,br. Innocence, Elspeth, he says. A clown is innocent. He is innocent because he has not been born into our world. He is innocent, Elspeth, because he has not been born at all.

Alphonse, an accordion-playing ex-clown, is hired by the Baron to spy on his wife, for whom, unknown to the Baron, he is already working. The intricate shadow-play that ensues moves at a pace that quickly blurs the distinctions between jokes and lies, art and evidence, until with a final tug at the strings the characters barons, clowns, art students, art collectors, film-makers, restaurateurs are brought into unexpected alignment with their several objects of desire.

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Recensione:

`Only Joking has the light heart which can be revealed at the further end of a literary career . . . The great success of Josipovici's technique here is that not only is the effect like that of watching something between an Ealing comedy and a very sparky and accessible French nouvelle vague film, but it also sharpens our own responses to the layers of deceit going on . . . It is a complete pleasure.' --Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

L'autore:

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 and lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to the UK. He read English at Oxford and taught at the University of Sussex from 1963 to 1996. His work includes fiction, drama and criticism, and has been widely translated.

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• Editore: CB Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956107362
• ISBN 13: 9780956107367
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 166