Prehistoric Times
β Scribed by Eric Chevillard
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books, Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Edition
- 1st Archipelago books ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards.
Praise for Palafox :
"Beautiful. . . . Very amusing. . . . Chevillard takes real narrative risks. . . . A must for anyone interested in anti-realist fiction."--Rain Taxi Review of Books
The characters in Prehistoric Times remind us of the inhabitants of Samuel Beckett's world: dreamers who in their savage and deductive folly try to modify reality. In an entirely original voice--full of burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures--Eric Chevillard asks luminous and playful questions about who we really are.
Winner of the 2003 Prix Wepler for Le Vaillant petit tailleur , Eric Chevillard is one of the most inventive authors writing in French today. He is also the author of On the Ceiling , The Crab Nebula , and Demolishing Nisard.
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