Synapses

Brousseau's beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single, stylistically accomplished sentence and featuring a different character, willlinger with readers.

About the author

Simon Brousseau was born in Québec City in 1985. He lives in Montréal and teaches literature at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. Synapses was a finalist for the 2016 Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal. His dissertation on the work of David Foster Wallace and the question of literary influence will be published by Éditions Nota bene in 2019. He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Les fins heureuses (Le Cheval d'août, 2018).

Summary

Formally inventive, Simon Brousseau’s Synapses orchestrates a series of beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each involving a different character, eloquently presented using a sole, twisting and turning, stylistically accomplished sentence written in the second-person singular. Brousseau depicts a vast society of differing psyches and souls, all unique and idiosyncratic, yet interconnected, quasi neurologically, in a dialogic network of humanity. With Synapses, his first novel, Brousseau realizes the surprising feat of a pointillist literary masterpiece.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Brousseau
• Assisted by: Pablo Strauss (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2019
• EAN: 9781772012231
• ISBN: 978-1-77201-223-1
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 150 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Psychological, Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit