The Explosion of the Radiator Hose
A Novel
In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s-but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world's. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less…
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Weitere Autoren: Lalaurie, Louise Rogers (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-648-7
- EAN: 9781564786487
- Produktnummer: 20448992
- Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 531 KB
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