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Eric Chevillard; Translated by Daniel Levin Becker; Edited by Daniel Medin
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Discovery Miles 3 340
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The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French
humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time
 Éric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and
thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose
erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and
Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.  This
ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs,
stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed,
scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd
conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for
his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He
attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He
happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story.
He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really
worth the trip.  Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of
observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially
superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically
sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar
with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s
translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a
foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making
a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in
English.
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