Dear Reader - Brossura

Fournel, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782270264 ISBN 13: 9781782270263

Casa editrice: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though - Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming back to him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle into the end of his career, like it's a tipsy afternoon after a working lunch. But then he is confronted with a gift: a piece of technology, a gizmo, a reader... 
Dear Reader takes a wry, affectionate look at the world of publishing, books and authors, and is a very funny, moving story about the passing of the old and the excitement of the new.

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Recensione

'Brief, witty, intellectual and wonderfully quotable... the most truthful account of literary ennui I have ever read... a quietly remarkable little book' Spectator

'Dear Reader is a joyously satirical, affectionate novel - unashamedly a book about books' Huffington Post

'A wry but affectionate look at today's publishing world' The Lady

'Delightfully satirical... [the] ultimate celebration of printed books' Le Monde

'All about the intense and carnal pleasures of reading' Telerama

'Poetic, satirical and delicate: here is a novel in urgent need of reading' L'Express

'Utterly fascinating... a novel with a message that cannot be ignored'The Bay

'Dear Reader is a good example of with the Oulipian method isn't merely a game, but rather a surprisingly fertile approach to writing' The Complete Review

'A delight' --Le Figaro

L'autore

Paul Fournel was born in 1947. He worked as a publisher with Ramsay & Seghers, and chaired the Société des gens de lettres. He was head of the Alliance Française in San Francisco, and a cultural attaché in Cairo and London. He now writes full time and cycles during the rest of the day. As a third full-time job, he is the Provisionally Definitive Secretary and President of the literary collective known as Oulipo, whose members have included George Perec and Italo Calvino among many others. He is also the author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, and poetry. 
Translated from the French by David Bellos.

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• Editore: Pushkin Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782270264
• ISBN 13: 9781782270263
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168