Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel (French Literature) - Softcover

Rolin, Jean

 
9781564786326: Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel (French Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1564786323 ISBN 13: 9781564786326
Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s--but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world's. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, "The Explosion of the Radiator Hose" is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean Rolin is a French writer and journalist, the winner of the 1988 Albert Londres Prize for journalism, and the 1996 Prix Medicis for his novel L'organisation. As a student, he was closely involved-along with his older brother Olivier (the author of "Hotel Crystal")-in the May '68 uprising. He is the author of essays, novels, and short stories. In 2006, his book "L'Homme qui a vu l'ours" won the Prix Ptolemee.

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Verlag
Dalkey Archive Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1564786323
ISBN 13 
9781564786326
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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