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Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues

About the author

Paul Fournel was born in 1947. He worked as a publisher with Ramsay & Seghers, and chaired the Société des gens de lettres. He was head of the Alliance Française in San Francisco, and a cultural attaché in Cairo and London. He now writes full time and cycles during the rest of the day. As a third full-time job, he is the Provisionally Definitive Secretary and President of the literary collective known as Oulipo, whose members have included George Perec and Italo Calvino, among many others.
He is also the author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, and poetry.
David Bellos is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. The biographer of Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary, Bellos is also a translator whose prizes include the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and the Man Booker International Prize.

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Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues

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Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues

Product details

• Authors: Paul Fournel, Paul (Author) Fournel, Fournel Paul
• Assisted by: David Bellos (Translation), Bellos David (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781782275220
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-522-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary