The Man in a Hurry - Rilegato

Morand, Paul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1782270973 ISBN 13: 9781782270973

Casa editrice: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2015

Riassunto

Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will realize that in his haste, he has been hurrying only to arrive more quickly at a meeting with death.

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Recensione:

'Probably the best French writer of the twentieth century after Proust and Céline' Philippe Sollers

'Morand was the all-round aesthete.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

'Admired both by Ezra Pound and by Marcel Proust as a pioneer craftsman of Modernist French prose (...) The sheer shapeliness of his prose recalls Hemingway; the urbanity of his self-destructiveness compares with Fitzgerald's; and his camera eye is as lucidly stroboscopic as that of Dos Passos'

--The New York Times

L'autore:

Paul Morand (1888-1976) was born in Paris and, after studying at the École des Sciences Politiques, joined the diplomatic corps, serving in London, Rome, Berne and Bucharest. In a long and busy life, he found time to write poetry, novels, short stories and travel books. Married to a Romanian Princess, he was made a member of the Académie Française in 1968.

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• Editore: Pushkin Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782270973
• ISBN 13: 9781782270973
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 382