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To Write on Tamara
Marcel Benabou
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Description for To Write on Tamara
Paperback. A story of the impossibility of love and the impossibility of writing of love, this work is a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one's story. At its center is the beautiful and ethereal Tamara, the incarnation of the narrator's enduring fantasy - a femme fatale for the lover of form. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
As stubborn, as surprising, as artful as life in its refusal to conform to a particular literary genre, Marcel Bénabou’s book is at once a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one’s story. At its center, forever alluring and elusive, is the beautiful and ethereal Tamara, the exact incarnation of our narrator’s most enduring fantasy—a femme fatale for the lover of form. Who precisely our narrator is, is less certain: The young Manuel, who leaves his home in Morocco to study in Paris, only to encounter the enticing Tamara? Or ... Read more
As stubborn, as surprising, as artful as life in its refusal to conform to a particular literary genre, Marcel Bénabou’s book is at once a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one’s story. At its center, forever alluring and elusive, is the beautiful and ethereal Tamara, the exact incarnation of our narrator’s most enduring fantasy—a femme fatale for the lover of form. Who precisely our narrator is, is less certain: The young Manuel, who leaves his home in Morocco to study in Paris, only to encounter the enticing Tamara? Or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803262157
SKU
V9780803262157
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About Marcel Benabou
Marcel Bénabou lives in Paris and pursues his positions as professor of ancient history at the University of Paris and as the permanent provisional secretary of Oulipo. He is the author of Dump This Book While You Still Can! and Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books, both published by the University of Nebraska Press. Steven Rendall, a ... Read more
Reviews for To Write on Tamara
"This is a book that has all the earmarks of a clever postmodern novel, but it actually takes the form of a rather straightforward memoir. Its dual theme-falling in love and trying to make sense of that love through narrative-is universal." -Rain Taxi Rain Taxi "An enjoyable fiction, both simply as a description of student life in the late 1950s ... Read more