Paper Conspiracies
Autor Susan Daitchen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2011
"One of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the US today." — David Foster Wallace
One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark case involving treason and anti-Semitism. Here is a novel about tangential players far from the trial's main stage: petty forgers, cross-dressers, actors in early silent films that document the trial, and a film restorer who's trying to save those crumbling movies nearly a hundred years later, all of them caught in a web of intrigue, menace, and betrayal that reaches through space and time.
One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark case involving treason and anti-Semitism. Here is a novel about tangential players far from the trial's main stage: petty forgers, cross-dressers, actors in early silent films that document the trial, and a film restorer who's trying to save those crumbling movies nearly a hundred years later, all of them caught in a web of intrigue, menace, and betrayal that reaches through space and time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780872865143
ISBN-10: 0872865142
Pagini: 361
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 141 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: City Lights Books
ISBN-10: 0872865142
Pagini: 361
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 141 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: City Lights Books
Recenzii
"Daitch has lost none of the bristling intelligence that makes her work so uniquely literary. . . . Daitch's narrative can certainly be enjoyed as cerebral noir; the cryptic calls and notes delivered to Frances are reminiscent of Paul Auster." -- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
"The world Susan Daitch spins is like uncovering a lost history first-hand through the eyes and ears of those who were there. An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction." — Tottenville Review
"Questions of integrity, authenticity and the slipperiness of 'truth' in a politicized society animate Susan Daitch's ambitious and highly satisfying novel about France's infamous Dreyfus Affair and its legacy. . . . A mesmerizing novel about the construction of stories, some true and incredible, others false yet widely believed to be true." — John McFarland, Shelf Awareness
"Like Herzog’s study of Viennese literature, Susan Daitch’s third novel, Paper Conspiracies (City Lights), shuttles from the fin de siècle to the present, only in France. Daitch takes her impetus from the silent movie about Alfred Dreyfus made by the cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès, best known for his fanciful "A Trip to the Moon" (1902). A film in which one of the first masters of special effects took on a sensational political event makes good sense as a jumping-off point for Daitch’s formally experimental, intertextual fiction. She’s the sort of writer who favors footnotes and who imagines how the Yiddish-speaker who busted Lenny Bruce felt; David Foster Wallace once called her “one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.” — Josh Lambert, Tablet Magazine
"This erudite page-turner takes us from late 19th-century France to the film studios of the great Georges Méliès to the tribulations of a film restorer who finds herself caught up in political intrigue, a century after the famous Affaire Dreyfus. As in her celebrated L.C., Daitch constructs a compelling dialogue with an earlier century that shifts our perspective on our own time." — Susan Bernofsky, author of Foreign Words
"It's Susan Daitch at her finest! A smart, absorbing study of those at the margins of history who, under her deft pen, turn out to be vital. Fascinating story, captivating writing." — Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the War and Vacation
"The world Susan Daitch spins is like uncovering a lost history first-hand through the eyes and ears of those who were there. An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction." — Tottenville Review
"Questions of integrity, authenticity and the slipperiness of 'truth' in a politicized society animate Susan Daitch's ambitious and highly satisfying novel about France's infamous Dreyfus Affair and its legacy. . . . A mesmerizing novel about the construction of stories, some true and incredible, others false yet widely believed to be true." — John McFarland, Shelf Awareness
"Like Herzog’s study of Viennese literature, Susan Daitch’s third novel, Paper Conspiracies (City Lights), shuttles from the fin de siècle to the present, only in France. Daitch takes her impetus from the silent movie about Alfred Dreyfus made by the cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès, best known for his fanciful "A Trip to the Moon" (1902). A film in which one of the first masters of special effects took on a sensational political event makes good sense as a jumping-off point for Daitch’s formally experimental, intertextual fiction. She’s the sort of writer who favors footnotes and who imagines how the Yiddish-speaker who busted Lenny Bruce felt; David Foster Wallace once called her “one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.” — Josh Lambert, Tablet Magazine
"This erudite page-turner takes us from late 19th-century France to the film studios of the great Georges Méliès to the tribulations of a film restorer who finds herself caught up in political intrigue, a century after the famous Affaire Dreyfus. As in her celebrated L.C., Daitch constructs a compelling dialogue with an earlier century that shifts our perspective on our own time." — Susan Bernofsky, author of Foreign Words
"It's Susan Daitch at her finest! A smart, absorbing study of those at the margins of history who, under her deft pen, turn out to be vital. Fascinating story, captivating writing." — Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the War and Vacation
Notă biografică
Susan Daitch is the author of two novels, L.C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award), The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Tinhouse, Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, Ploughshares, failbetter.com, McSweeney's The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction VLS, The Brooklyn Rail. Her work was featured in The Review of Contemporary Fiction along with William Vollman and David Foster Wallace. Her fiction has been the subject of The Poetics of Postmodernism (Linda Hucheons, Routledge), History Made, History Imagined (David Price, University of Illinois), among others. She has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at Hunter College.
Descriere
The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock.