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The Company of Ghosts (French Literature) (Frenc... by Salvayre, Lydie Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 1564783502
- EAN
- 9781564783509
- Date of Publication
- 2006-02-16
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- The Company of Ghosts (French Literature)
- Artist
- Woodall, Christopher
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1564783502
ISBN-13
9781564783509
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46911239
Product Key Features
Book Title
Company of Ghosts
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Horror, General
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
French Literature Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-049209
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"...novels that make you sit up and take notice, that directly confront you, that shake you up from the very first sentence, warning you that the test is going to be brutal, the dream is going to be dark, and the princess's smile is going to be painful." -- Le Monde, There are innocuous books that charm you, gently surprise you at moments you didn't expect, blissfully put you to sleep, make you dream of princes and princesses....But there are others, like Lydie Salvayre's novels, that make you sit up and take notice, that directly confront you, that shake you up from the very first sentence, warning you that the test is going to be brutal, the dream is going to be dark, and the princess's smile is going to be painful., "...novels that make you sit up and take notice, that directly confront you, that shake you up from the very first sentence, warning you that the test is going to be brutal, the dream is going to be dark, and the princess's smile is going to be painful."--Le Monde
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Synopsis
When a process-server arrives at a housing project on the edge of Paris to draw up a routine inventory of goods in view of seizure, the reception he receives from distrainees Rose Melie and her teenage daughter Louisiane is more than he has bargained for. Rose, forever unhinged by the trauma of a childhood spent under Nazi occupation, mistakes him for a collaborationist thug and assails him with her alternately tragic and hilarious memories of Vichy France. Louisiane, for her part, treats the process-server to an exaggerated display of courtesy laced with precocious classical erudition and a stream of late-pubescent revelations. In a narrative that lurches giddily between 1942 and 1997, Lydie Salvayre picks at the sores of recent French history, impertinently exposing continuities of authoritarianism. In Some Useful Advice for Apprentice Process-Servers--a short piece also included in this book--the author grants the process-server a right of reply, which he uses to chilling effect., When a bailiff turns up, a teenager tries to salvage her mother, their dignity and the TV. When a bailiff arrives at a housing project on the edge of Paris to draw up a routine inventory of goods in view of seizure, the reception he receives from Rose Melle and her teenage daughter is more than he has bargained for. Rose, forever unhinged by the trauma of childhood spent under Nazi occupation, mistakes him for a collaborationist thug and assails him with her alternately tragic and hilarious memories of Vichy France. In a narrative that lurches giddily between 1942 and 1997, Salvayre picks at the sores of recent French history, exposing its continuing authoritarianism. "The Company Of Ghosts" won the Prix Novembre in France.
LC Classification Number
PQ2679.A52435C6613
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