Sinossi
In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolins journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960sbut no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolins sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the worlds. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.
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Recensione
'...the most amusing and erudite shaggy dog story I've ever heard... Tightly executed, unwaveringly gripping, and laugh-out-loud funny.' --Words without Borders http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-explosion-of-the-radiator-hose-by-jean-rolin/
'Rolin... brings to his writing a forensic eye, a deep sense of the oddest details of history and a wry sense of humor.'
--Prospect magazine, issue 182, 20 April 2011 prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/04/modern-french-literature-suicide-leve-jean-rolin-hose/
L'autore
Jean Rolin is a French writer and journalist, the winner of the 1988 Albert Londres Prize for journalism, and the 1996 Prix Medicis for his novel L'organisation. As a student, he was closely involved in the May '68 uprising. He is the author of essays, novels and short stories.
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