Portrait of the Writer As a Domesticated Animal

Informationen zum Autor Lydie Salvayre, daughter of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, grew up in the south of France, where she received a degree in psychiatry. In her mid-forties she published her first novel, The Declaration. She has since published nine other books, including Everyday Life and The Power of Flies, and has received numerous awards, including the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre. Klappentext What happens when a writer throws herself into the service of one of the richest businessmen in the world? Will all the luxuries and corruption of the business world turn her into a complacent drone?

Product details

• Authors: William Pedersen, Lydie Salvayre
• Assisted by: William Pedersen (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.03.2010
• EAN: 9781564785572
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-557-2
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: French Literature; French Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature