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Not A Clue
Chloé Delaume
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Description for Not A Clue
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In this life-size game of Clue, six psychiatric patients in Paris’s Saint Anne’s Hospital are suspects in the murder of Dr. Black. Though Not a Clue tells the stories of these possible assassins, their lives, and what has brought them to the hospital, the true focus of Chloé Delaume’s intense and tumultuous novel is not merely to discover the identity of the murderer. Rather, by cleverly combining humor with the day-to-day effects of life’s unrelenting compromises, Not a Clue is an astute commentary on the current state of literary production and consumption.
Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as ... Read more
In this life-size game of Clue, six psychiatric patients in Paris’s Saint Anne’s Hospital are suspects in the murder of Dr. Black. Though Not a Clue tells the stories of these possible assassins, their lives, and what has brought them to the hospital, the true focus of Chloé Delaume’s intense and tumultuous novel is not merely to discover the identity of the murderer. Rather, by cleverly combining humor with the day-to-day effects of life’s unrelenting compromises, Not a Clue is an astute commentary on the current state of literary production and consumption.
Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9781496200891
SKU
9781496200891
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Ref
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About Chloé Delaume
Chloé Delaume is an award-winning French novelist. Among the more than twenty texts she has published since 2000, her second novel, Le Cri du sablier, was awarded the Prix Décembre in 2001. Dawn M. Cornelio is a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her work has appeared in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Women in French Studies, and elsewhere. ... Read more
Reviews for Not A Clue
Praise for the original French edition ""In response to lovers of ready-to-write fiction who say `to write a good novel, you have to . . . ,’ Chloé Delaume offers `bruised’ syntax, with the barest minimum of punctuation. Like a lace maker, she stitches together words, tears apart adjectives, tugs on adjectives, swells with parenthetical asides, and drenches her prose ... Read more