β Emmanuel Bove
π Fiction
π
2015
π New York Review Books
π English
β 76 KB
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Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
β Scribed by Emmanuel Bove
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590178327
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β¦ Synopsis
An NYRB Classics Original
Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, My Friends, Bove enjoyed a busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him. During his lifetime, his novels and stories were admired by Rilke, the surrealists, Camus, and Beckett, who said of him that "more than anyone else he has an instinct for the essential detail."
Henry Duchemin and His Shadows is the ideal introduction to Bove's world, with its cast of stubborn isolatoes who call to mind Melville's Bartleby, Walser's "little men," and Rhys's lost women. Henri Duchemin, the protagonist of the collection's first story, "Night Crime," is ambivalent, afraid of appearing ridiculous, desperate for money: in other words, the perfect prey. Criminals, beautiful women, and profiteers threaten the sad young men of...
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