Description: A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andre Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing a book called Marshlands, which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse- He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and always talking about, what else, the wonderful book he is writing, Marshlands. He tells his friends about the book, and they tell him what they think, which is not exactly flattering, and of course those responses become part of the book in the reader's hand. Marshlands is both a poised satire of literary pretension and a superb literary invention, and Damion Searls's new translation of this early masterwork by one of the key figures of twentieth-century literature brings out all the sparkle of the original.
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EAN: 9781681374727
UPC: 9781681374727
ISBN: 9781681374727
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Marshlands
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Topic: Psychological, Satire, Literary
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: Andre Gide
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback