"When you come in from the main courtyard you've got the other door
facing you at the back it makes it look more spacious though God
knows the drawing-room doesn't need it runs the whole length of the
house" runs on the whole length of this book although this
particular line is only the beginning of a ten page description of
an interior of a chateau where an old secretary has disappeared and
what happened is now being examined in The Inquisitory conducted by
a nameless interrogator through an aging servant who drones on and
on in an ambient, sometimes incoherent, sometimes contradictory
fashion about not only all the furnishings and fixtures on the
premises but all the people who frequented the chateau and the
outlying farmers and tradesmen in the village none of whom are more
identified than they might be in a telephone directory so that what
is technically a tour de force is actually a triumph of tedium. Are
there ulterior motives? no doubt, but you will reach the end of
these 399 pages which end gratefully ibid "Answer Yes or no answer
I'm tired." (Kirkus Reviews)
General
Imprint: |
Calder Publications Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Calderbooks S. |
Release date: |
1982 |
Authors: |
Robert Pinget
|
Translators: |
David Watson
|
Dimensions: |
180 x 120mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
399 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7145-3911-9 |
Subtitles: |
French
|
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-7145-3911-2 |
Barcode: |
9780714539119 |
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