Del 0 - French Literature Series
Explosion of the Radiator Hose
A Novel
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
209 kr
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2011-05-19
- Mått140 x 202 x 12 mm
- Vikt213 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieFrench Literature Series
- Antal sidor168
- FörlagDalkey Archive Press
- ISBN9781564786326
- ÖversättareLalaurie, Louise Rogers