Dump This Book While You Still Can!

Name: Dump This Book While You Still Can!
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Price: 46.99 AUD
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By: Marcel Benabou, Steven Rendall (Translator), Warren Motte (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 30 June 2016

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177 Pages

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19.05 x 12.07 x 1.27

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In one of the most thought-provoking and wry books by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, readers become party to the dilemma of "challenging" literature in a singularly involving and amusing fashion. Opening a book that has mysteriously appeared amid the clutter of his desk, the narrator finds himself exhorted not to read further, to throw the book away Instead (but of course) he tries different strategies for approaching the book, none of which work. The narrator's tempestuous, increasingly obsessive relationship with the book he is determined to read, interwoven with the story of a real (but no less enigmatic) love affair, is, in its own challenging way, a charmed and charming, deeply provocative meditation upon reading and writing, and their inevitable discontents. "Dump This Book" offers a new angle on the work of this original writer and an ironic perspective on the power of reading to produce meaning.

Industry Reviews

"... a provocative analysis of how author and reader conspire to create the experience of perusing and inhabiting a text. Meanwhile, Rendall's witty and resourceful translation is a rare pleasure unto itself. Great fun." - Kirkus Reviews

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