The Fool and Other Moral Tales

✍ Scribed by Hutchinson, Mark;Serre, Anne

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 80 KB
• Series: New Directions paperbook
• Edition: First New Directions edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0811227170

✦ Synopsis

"Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool "may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them-a figure observing you can turn the world upside down." The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: "Outcasts who can't even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story." The Wishing Table-a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous-is the most overtly a fable of these three works, the most naughty, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual, and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but they are nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones"--

✦ Subjects

Serre, Anne, -- 1960- -- Translations into English