Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books

Informationen zum Autor The author (or not) of a dozen books, Marcel Bénabou is a professor of ancient history at the University of Paris VII and permanent provisional secretary of Oulipo. David Kornacker is a writer and translator living in New York City. Warren Motte is a professor of French at the University of Colorado. Klappentext "Benabou addresses conflicting impulses between writing and reading! writing and living! following great models and being original. And he has a great deal of gentle self-deprecating fun while doing it. But this isn't just about the wordplay beloved of French modernists. At base it is a lovely book about the love of books and of language and all that goes into making them! be it paper or words".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Zusammenfassung Provides both a litany of writers' fears and a dismissal of the alibis offered to excuse them. The author aims to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company.

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Benabou
• Assisted by: David Kornacker (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780803261396
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6139-6
• No. of pages: 111
• Series: French Modernist Library; French Modernist Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies