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The Lecture: Diane Williams: French Literature Series

Autor Lydie Salvayre, Linda Coverdale
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2005 – vârsta de la 22 ani

At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecuring the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation. In the narrator's opinion, "coversation is a specialty that is most eminently French," an art that should be nurtured and practiced, and can help repair France's reputation. Not to mention being a good conversationalist is extremely useful for seducing women, which is how the narrator managed to attract Lucienne, his "superbly lumpish" wife who died two months before giving this lecture. One of the oddest characters in contemporary fiction, the lecturer in this novel can't help but digress about his sad life in the midst of his speech, giving the reader a view of a self-centered man trying to turn one of his greatest faults into a virtue to be forced on everyone else. By turns ironic, hilarious, pathetic, and mortifying, Salvayre's The Lecture is an exuberant example of the exciting fiction being written in France.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781564783516
ISBN-10: 1564783510
Pagini: 135
Dimensiuni: 133 x 178 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Dalkey Archive Press
Seria French Literature Series

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Lydie Salvayre, daughter of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, grew up in the south of France, where she received a degree in psychiatry. In her mid-forties she published her first novel, The Declaration. She has since published nine other books, including Everyday Life and The Power of Flies, and has received numerous awards, including the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre.