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With the Animals
Noelle Revaz
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Paperback. Translator(s): Wilson, W. Donald. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310. 233 pages. "Originally published in French as Rapport aux betes by Gallimard, Paris, 2002.". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 149 x 203 x 18. Weight: 310. Translator(s): Wilson, W. Donald.
Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, No?lle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand C?line: "With the Animals," her shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose linguistic audaciousness is matched only by its brutality, misanthropy, and gallows humor. Narrated by the singular Paul--a violent, narrowminded farmer whose unceasing labor leaves him with more love for his livestock than his family--"With the Animals" is at once a fantastically exaggerated and entirely honest portrait of masculinity gone mad. With his mute and detested wife ... Read more
Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, No?lle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand C?line: "With the Animals," her shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose linguistic audaciousness is matched only by its brutality, misanthropy, and gallows humor. Narrated by the singular Paul--a violent, narrowminded farmer whose unceasing labor leaves him with more love for his livestock than his family--"With the Animals" is at once a fantastically exaggerated and entirely honest portrait of masculinity gone mad. With his mute and detested wife ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787545
SKU
V9781564787545
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About Noelle Revaz
Noelle Revaz was born in 1968 in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. She is the author of numerous short stories and a novel, "Efina". Besides her work as a writer, she teaches creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute at Biel/Bienne, where she lives. W. Donald Wilson joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he remained ... Read more
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