Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape
A Caprice
Like James Joyce's and Dylan Thomas's similar titles, Butor's novel is autobiographical in nature and explores the way a writer develops. Shortly after World War II a young man travels to a castle in Franconia housing the second largest private library in Germany. There he discovers a multitude of stimuli for his imagination: a castle once the site of celebrations and executions, the old library, mineral collections, rooms decorated in mythological themes, and an exiled count who has a passion for highly original games of solitaire.Days are spent in the library steeping himself in the literature of alchemy, whose great theme was transformatio…
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Weitere Autoren: Di Bernardi, Dominic (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-089-8
- EAN: 9781564780898
- Produktnummer: 9413672
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 121 S.
Über den Autor
Michel Butor (1926) est l'auteur d'une oeuvre considerable de plus de six cents livres, parmi lesquels des romans, notammentLa Modification(prix Renaudot, 1957), des recueil de poesies, dont le fameux Travaux d'approche(1972), de nombreux essais, commeImprovisations sur Flaubert(1989) etImprovisations sur Rimbaud (1989). Il est le dernier grand representant de l'ecole du Nouveau Roman.
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