Paper Tiger - Softcover

Rolin, Olivier

 
9780803289994: Paper Tiger
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803289995 ISBN 13: 9780803289994
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Their generation was anything but lost, at least in the beginning. Filled with fiery ambition and idealistic to a fault, they found their voice in the Paris of 1968 and were intent on exposing the powers of repression and the demons of Western capitalism (and what, really, was the difference?)—by any means. But the acts of violence misfired, the principles of Marxism and Maoism became emptied of meaning, and the casualties mounted. The protagonist Martin is now middle-aged; his group, “The Cause,” is disbanded; his best friend has committed suicide; and he finds he must try to explain to the man’s daughter who they were, what they thought they were doing, and what happened.
 
Paper Tiger takes place during one night that this unlikely couple spends driving around Paris as they revisit a somewhat distant past. This odyssey is adroitly evoked by Rolin's long, fluid sentences as they reflect the car’s route past the sundry signs of the past and advertisements of the present dotting the Paris beltway.
 
This prize-winning novel by one of France’s most acclaimed writers tells, through Martin, the elegiac story of a whole generation’s coming of age.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Olivier Rolin is one of France’s most distinguished novelists. His Port-Sudan won the Prix Femina, and Tigre en Papier was short-listed for the 2003 Goncourt Prize. This is the first translation of his work into English. William Cloonan is the Richard Chapple Professor of Modern Languages at Florida State University. He is the author of The Writing of War: French and German Fiction and World War II.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803289995
ISBN 13 
9780803289994
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Anzahl der Seiten
203
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