Desirable Body

Informationen zum Autor Hubert Haddad is a French author born in Tunisia--a novelist, an art historian, a playwright, and an essayist. Alyson Waters is an award-winning translator, the managing editor of Yale French Studies , and a senior lecturer in the department of French at Yale University. Klappentext A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves into the nature of consciousness while raising the ethical and existential issues facing scientists today A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it. Haddad explores the confusion and insignificance of a single consciousness before experience and identity: What is a head without a body? What or who is a lover with another's body? The gruesome transplant (detailed in a manner that highlights the author's diligent research and comprehension) parallels other ways humanity mutates nature globally. The novel is a provocative and timely allegory--a work of dystopian fantasy. Zusammenfassung "Originally published as Corps daesirable. Copyright AZulma, 2015" -- Title page verso.

Product details

• Authors: Hubert Haddad, Hubert/ Waters Haddad, Haddad Hubert
• Assisted by: Alyson Waters (Translation), Waters Alyson (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780300224368
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22436-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Fiction: general and literary