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1 online resource (110 pages) |
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Nelson -- The queen's caprice -- In Babylon -- Twenty women in the Jardin du Luxembourg, clockwise -- Civil engineering -- Nitrox -- Three sandwiches at Le Bourget. |
| Summary |
France's preeminent fiction writer is frequently credited with a kind of literary magic, an ability to craft stories with such precision and detail that readers are caught off guard by the powerful currents of emotion and imagination that lie just beneath the surface of his writing. “Echenoz risks everything in his fiction, gambling on the prodigious blandishments of his voice to lure his readers into a maze of improbabilities and preposterous happenings" (Bookforum).The Queen's Caprice—seven new stories presented in English for the first time—reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The. |
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Collects seven stories, including "Nelson," about a miniaturist portrait of the Battle of Trafalger hero and "Babylon," which creates a depiction of Mesopotamia based on Herodotus' descriptions. |
| Note |
"For the publication in English of his Caprice de la reine, Jean Echenoz has made a few minor changes in the texts. These seven recits are his favorite occasional pieces, written on subjects that inspired the author to observe, improvise, invent-for although these stories sometimes spring from historical incident, they are in the end what Echenoz wished to create: "little literary objects." This tension between story and history depends in part on the ability of the reader to catch allusions and follow undercurrents of meaning that are reasonably clear to French readers but may pass completely unnoticed in English. I have therefore provided endnotes for some of these references and for a few other points of interest as well" -- Translator's note. |
| Contents |
Nelson -- The queen's caprice -- In Babylon -- Twenty women in the Jardin du Luxembourg, clockwise -- Civil engineering -- Nitrox -- Three sandwiches at Le Bourget. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Echenoz, Jean -- Translations into English.
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Echenoz, Jean. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
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Short stories, French.
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French fiction -- 21st century.
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French fiction. |
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Short stories, French. |
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Translations.
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Coverdale, Linda, translator.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Nelson. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Short stories. Selections. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Babylone. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Vingt femmes dans le jardin du Luxembourg et dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Génie civil. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Nitrox. English.
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Echenoz, Jean.
Trois sandwiches au Bourget. English.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Echenoz, Jean. Queen's caprice New York : The New Press, 2015 9781620970652 (DLC) 2014047909 (OCoLC)891618826 |
| ISBN |
9781620970720 : $19.99 |
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1620970724 : $19.99 |
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