| A Winter's Journal Translated Edition Contributor(s): Bove, Emmanuel (Author), Botsford, Keith (Afterword by), Favre-Gilly, Nathalie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810160471 ISBN-13: 9780810160477 Publisher: Marlboro Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: Paris in the 1930s. Louis Grandeville has a beautiful wife, a nice home, a loyal servant, and a large circle of well-placed friends. The "winter" of the title is a time wherein Louis commits to paper the minute details of his unhappy marriage. His painstakingly rendered analyses of his wife's behavior tell us far more about him than about her, and about the harm two people can do to each other. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97-43700 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.38" W x 8.43" (0.64 lbs) 219 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paris in the 1930s: Louis Grandeville has a beautiful wife, a nice home, a loyal servant, and a large circle of well-placed friends. His financial situation doesn't require him to work. Yet Louis is obsessed by the nagging reality that he never has and never will amount to anything. He believes his life is devoid of any affection or goal, filled instead with a thousand trifles intended to relieve its monotony, and populated with human beings he seeks out to avoid being alone but for whom he cares little. Every few days for one winter, Louis writes down the details of his unhappy marriage. Although his wife, Madeleine, is the focal point of his journal, his painstakingly rendered analyses of her behavior tell us more about him than her, and about the harm two people can do to one another. Unsparing and insightful, A Winter's Journal remains one of the most devastating novels ever written on the self-destructive impulse present in all marriages. |
