Trio / Robert Pinget ; introduction by John Updike ; translation by Barbara Wright.
2005
PQ2631.I638 A288 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Trio / Robert Pinget ; introduction by John Updike ; translation by Barbara Wright.
Author
Pinget, Robert.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 2005
Edition
1st Dalkey Archive ed.
ISBN
9781564784087 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564784088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564784088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PQ2631.I638 A288 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
843/.914
Summary
Trio marks the first time these three shorter Pinget works are collected in a single volume. From the sublime surrealism of Between Fantoine and Agapa, through the Faulknerian take on rural life in That Voice, to the musical rhythm and flow of Passacaglia, this collection charts the varied career of one of the French New Novel's true luminaries. The space between the fictional towns of Fantoine and Agapa is akin to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: an area where provincialism is neither romanticized nor parodied; where intrigue--often violent intrigue--confronts the bucolic ideal held both by insiders and outsiders; and where reality is shaped not by events, but by talk and gossip, by insinuation and conjecture. Written over the course of his career, these three novels are by turns hilarious and dark, surreal and painstakingly accurate; together they demonstrate the consistent quality of Pinget's versatility.
Added Author
Wright, Barbara, 1915-2009.
Series
French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
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Table of Contents
Between Fantoine and Agapa
That voice
Passacaglia.
That voice
Passacaglia.