The Cemetery in Barnes
A Novel
Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019.Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018.Gabriel Josipovici's The Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices - as in an opera by Monteverdi - provide the soundtrack, enhanced by a chorus of friends and acquaintances. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris and then to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once conf…
Mehr
CHF 13.55
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78410-547-1
- EAN: 9781784105471
- Produktnummer: 26745666
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 104 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 154 KB
Über den Autor
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of sixteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.
42 weitere Werke von Gabriel Josipovici:
Bewertungen
Anmelden