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The Dance of a Sham
Paul Emond
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Description for The Dance of a Sham
Paperback. Translator(s): Jones, Marlon. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that Caracala is no more than a sham: a performer. Yet the reader will in turn come to doubt the narrator's own pretensions to honesty, until every source of information has become so unreliable as to make the very notion of a "true story" seem like ... Read more
The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that Caracala is no more than a sham: a performer. Yet the reader will in turn come to doubt the narrator's own pretensions to honesty, until every source of information has become so unreliable as to make the very notion of a "true story" seem like ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970326
SKU
V9781628970326
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About Paul Emond
Marlon Jones grew up in California, and lives in England. With Josephine Berganza and Jeff Fort, he translated French Theory by Francois Cusset.
Reviews for The Dance of a Sham
Paul Emond's characters tirelessly disgorge their stories, which they invent as they tell them, indulging in whimsies of sequence and fantasy that make Emond a successor to Laurence Sterne in Tristram Shandy... Le Soir The entire book comprises a single uninterrupted sentence, without paragraphs or chapters. This sentence is like the wild wind in the village chimneys, bearing everyone's stories ... Read more