Mensonge: My Strange Quest for Henri Mensonge, Structuralism's Hidden Hero - Hardcover

My Strange Quest for MENSONGE: Structuralism's Hidden Hero

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First published in September 1987 by Andre Deutsch, London, Second impression September 1987. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "In the great roll-call of twentieth-century thinkers, from Freud to Foucault, from Simone de Beauvoir to Brigitte Bardot, the name of Henri Mensonge is seldom heard. The question has even been asked: did he exist? Malcolm Bradbury does not necessarily answer this question, but the evidence he produces for Mensonge's crucially important state of both Being and Non-Being is fascinating. It is perhaps significant that Bradbury's first note on Mensonge was published a few years ago in the Observer on April 1st. En realite (as it is believed the French say) this quest for Mensonge will appeal not only to Structuralists, Post-Structuralists, Deconstructionists, Misreaders and other busy and useful persons in universities both here and abroad, but to any reader who has ever been puzzled about Absurdity, or about the difference between difference and differance, and who would like to laugh quietly at such profound ignorance. Malcolm Bradbury has in fact produced a comic fictional masterpiece, closely related to his brilliant novels. The book is embellished with a useless Bibliography and an even more useless Index, and carries a Foreword (which is actually an Afterword) apparently translated by David Lodge." [jacket copy] Pristine hardcover of 104 pages w/slight edge-toning, o/w very near Fine w/brilliant corners & crisp giftability, in intact dust jacket featuring cover image/painting of Magritte's "Man Reading a Newspaper," & the reverse with a photo of Bradbury smoking what could be/isn't a pipe. Artikel-Nr. RUB1684

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