District

District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.
A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tony Duvert
• Collaboration: S C Delaney (Traduction), S. C. Delaney (Traduction), Agnes Potier (Traduction), Agnès Potier (Traduction)
• Edition: Wakefield Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781939663306
• ISBN: 978-1-939663-30-6
• Pages: 56
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 174 mm x 7 mm
• Poids: 75 g
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)