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Title Statement | The fool: and other moral tales / Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson. |
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Series | New Directions paperbook |
Author | Serre, Anne, 1960- |
Additional Contributors | Hutchinson, Mark |
Publication | New York: New Directions Publishing,[2019]©2019 |
Extent of Item | 158 pages ; |
ISBN | 0811227162 (pbk.) 9780811227162 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3638870 |
General Notes | Short stories. "A New Directions Paperbook Original" "Originally published in French as "Le mat" (Editions Verdier, Paris, 2005), "Le narrateur" (Mercure de France, Paris, 2004), and "Petite table, sois mise!" (Editions Verdier, Paris, 2012). Published by arrangement with Mercure de France, Editions Verdier, and the French Book Office, New York." |
Contents | The fool -- The narrator -- The wishing table. |
Summary | "Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool "may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them-a figure observing you can turn the world upside down." The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: "Outcasts who can't even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story." The Wishing Table-a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous-is the most overtly a fable of these three works, the most naughty, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual, and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but they are nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones"--Provided by publisher. |
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By Topic | Tarot cards--Fiction |
Storytellers--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction |