Hoppla! 1 2 3 (Paperback)

The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard Gavarry is a writer who knows how literary inventiveness can shed new light on a serious subject, and Hoppla! tells its story three times, in three separate sections, each in a different tone or mode and with different sets of images and vocabularies. The first relies on tropical images and the characters speak in a lexicon borrowed from the coconut industry--as if the Parisian suburbs had been transported to an exotic shore; the second is nautical in nature; the third invokes the mythology of the centaur, and ancient Greece butts up against modern-day France. Gavarry's bloody and poetic narrative takes dead aim at the social, political, and personal roots of violence, and argues for the transformative power of fiction.

General

Imprint:	Dalkey Archive Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	French Literature
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Gerard Gavarry
Translators:	Jane Kuntz
Dimensions:	201 x 137 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-56478-536-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-56478-536-X
Barcode:	9781564785367

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