District Contributor(s): Duvert, Tony (Author), Delaney, S. C. (Introduction by), Delaney, S. C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 193966330X ISBN-13: 9781939663306 Publisher: Wakefield Press OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: 848.914 |
LCCN: 2017278523 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.4" W x 6.8" (0.15 lbs) 56 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces. A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work. |