Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of a Man is both Perec's first novel and his last. Frustrated in his efforts to find a publisher, he put it aside, telling a friend: "I'll go back to it in ten years when it'll turn into a masterpiece, or else I'll wait in my grave until one of my faithful exegetes comes across it in an old trunk." An apt coda to one of the brightest literary careers of the twentieth century, it is - in the words of David Bellos, the "faithful exegete" who brought it to light - "connected by a hundred threads to every part of the literary universe that Perec went on to create - but it's not like anything else that he wrote".
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The recently discovered first novel by the world famous author of Life: A User's Manual and A Void
Fascinating
Fascinating - GuardianVirtuosic in execution and not merely a curiosity for scholars . . . Unlike anything else that Perec wrote and yet it is the most welcome sum of the many parts of his rare art - Irish TimesIntellectually rewarding - and essential for anyone remotely interested in this most original of writers - The TimesPortrait of a Man has the feel of uncovered treasure, but it is a finished a finely crafted work, full of invention. It also adds significantly to our picture of Perec himself - Irish Examiner
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781782060963
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
MacLehose Press
Vekt
126 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176
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