In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road
trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France,
accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be
operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of
Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his
expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s -- but no less
present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding
lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his
own as well as the world's. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and
humane, "The Explosion of the Radiator Hose" is a one-of-a-kind
travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human
in a life of perpetual exile and migration.
General
| Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
French Literature Series |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
April 2011 |
| Authors: |
Jean Rolin
|
| Translators: |
Louise Rogers Lalaurie
|
| Dimensions: |
202 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
168 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56478-632-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-56478-632-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781564786326 |
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