Jean Echenoz

1914

Buch

Jean Echenoz, considered by many to be the most distinguished and versatile living French novelist, turns his attention to the deathtrap of World War I in 1914. In it, five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in this brilliant novel is the Great War itself. Echenoz, whose work has been compared to that of writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad and Laurence Sterne, leads us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the relentless-and, one hundred years later, still unthinkable-carnage of trench warfare.With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with an irony that is both… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Coverdale, Linda (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-59558-911-8
EAN: 9781595589118
Produktnummer: 19431956
Verlag: New Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 119 S.
Masse: H19.0 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.5 cm 138 g
Gewicht: 138

Über den Autor

Jean Echenoz won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for I'm Gone (The New Press). He is the author of six other novels available in English and the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Médicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. Linda Coverdale's most recent translation for The New Press was Jean Echenoz's Lightning. She was the recipient of the French-American Foundation's 2008 Translation Prize for her translation of Echenoz's Ravel (The New Press). She lives in Brooklyn.