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Sleepless
Marie Darrieussecq; Translated by Hueston
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R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her
attention to the causes, implications and consequences of
sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and
then defines the next day. In Sleepless, she recounts her own
experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, mostly writers
– ‘as if writing were not sleeping’ – Ovid, Marcel Proust,
Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Franz Kafka, Georges Perec and
others. With her inimitable humour, she describes her dealings with
a somnologist and her attempts to find a remedy – trying sleeping
pills, cannabis, alcohol, bedtime rituals, acupuncture, yoga,
hypnosis, psychoanalysis, a gravity blanket and a range of
sleep-aid devices. Darrieussecq considers bedrooms, beds,
clinophilia (‘the tendency to remain in a prone position without
sleeping for prolonged periods of time’), her need to be alone in
bed, those without beds, the homeless, refugees, trauma and
capitalism’s role in sleeplessness, our constant wakefulness
online, the forest as a hypnagogic zone and how our relationship
with animals is connected to our sleep, or lack of it. Ranging
between autobiography, clinical observation and criticism,
Sleepless is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most
daring, inventive novelists writing today.
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Pig Tales (Paperback, Main)
Marie Darrieussecq; Translated by Linda Coverdale
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R272
R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
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Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young
woman working in a beauty 'massage' parlour. She enjoys
extraordinary success at bringing home the bacon (in part due to
her increasingly rosy and irresistible backside) until she slowly
metamorphoses - into a pig. Rejected by her boyfriend, left to
wander the sewers and forage for food in public parks, she takes up
with a werewolf with insatiable appetites. They share everything
(pizza is a particular favourite; she gets the pizza, he gets the
delivery boy) until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy
strikes . . . Gender, politics and social hypocrisy all come under
scrutiny in this entertaining and enlightening novel. Pig Tales is
a Metamorphosis for the present day, a dark fable of political and
sexual corruption, and a grim warning of what can happen in a
society without a soul.
From the bestselling author of "Pig Tales," a suspense novel
about grief.
The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and
a half. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's
story, the story of his death. It will lead her--and the reader--to
the truth.
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Nigel Cooke (Paperback)
Marie Darrieussecq, Darian Leader, Tony Godfrey
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R963
R784
Discovery Miles 7 840
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An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist,
who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel
Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically
explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness,
art history, consumer culture, and nature. Primarily centred on
meticulously painted, large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls
'hybrid theatrical spaces', Cooke's work employs disparate styles,
often integrating trompe l'oeil miniature rocks and trees with
backdrops of graffiti-marked buildings, to create scenes conveying
obscure and macabre narratives. This survey of Cooke's career to
date explores the artist's style, approach, and impact on
contemporary art and includes his very latest works, completed
shortly before publication.
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Crossed Lines (Paperback)
Marie Darrieussecq; Translated by Penny Hueston
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R355
R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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The Baby (Paperback)
Marie Darrieussecq; Translated by Penny Hueston
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R402
R327
Discovery Miles 3 270
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White (Paperback, Main)
Marie Darrieussecq; Translated by Ian Monk
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R216
R167
Discovery Miles 1 670
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It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research
station in Antarctica. Both are running from tragic events at home.
In this setting of magnificent desolation, just fifteen kilometres
from the South Pole, a love affair begins to flourish - until there
is a catastrophic power failure at the base . . .
"Pig Tales" is the story of a young woman who lands a position
at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/"massage" parlor. She enjoys
great success until she slowly metamorphoses into . . . a pig. What
happens to her then overturns all our ideas about relationships
between man, woman, and beast in a stunning feminist fable of
political and sexual corruption.
What would you think if your husband, one day, with no word of
explanation or warning, vanished? When would you begin to panic -
the first hour, the first night? A deceptively simple story about a
deserted woman, My Phantom Husbandis Marie Darrieussecq's eerie
follow-up to Pig Tales, showing her to be a writer of great
subtlety and depth. When her husband goes to buy fresh bread and
never returns, the young narrator's life changes for ever. Night
after night she has to learn to be alone, to sleep alone, to live
in a space she has shared with a man for seven years. Yet who was
he, her husband, and did they really have much in common? Why can't
she remember her love for him - or even what he looked like?
Dragged into a world of visions, she is besieged by childhood
terrors - monsters behind the furniture, vampires floating around
in the dark, strangers walking in other rooms. She begins to see
her husband, or an apparition of him. Is he a supernatural
visitation or the product of madness - or a figment of her guilty
conscience? My Phantom Husband is a profoundly unsettling parable
about the way love appears and disappears, about the absences and
evasions that can lie hidden in any relationship.
Nathalie Djurberg (*1978) and Hans Berg (*1978) create animated
worlds with objects, music and moving images - dreamlike realms
where we might lose ourselves. Their playfully told fables hold
both humour and darkness, putting any moral laws of gravity out of
action. Djurberg's vibrant stop-motion animations and sculpture
groups accompanied by Berg's electronic music form scenic
installations in a surrealist vein. These intense chamber pieces
enact fragments of memories repressed between innocence and shame,
or feverish daydreams of role play and desire. The shadowy
landscapes, sealed rooms and harshly-lit scenes of their films are
inhabited by a group of possessed figures seemingly set on
devouring one another. The exhibition and fully illustrated catalog
describe an inner voyage, an attempt to make existence more
understandable in a flow of impulses and impressions.Exhibitions:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 16.6.-9.9.2018Museo d'Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto,
5.10.2018-13.1.2019Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, 28.2.-26.5.2019
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