Dump this book while you still can! = Jette ce livre avant qu'il soit trop tard / Marcel Bénabou ; translated by Steven Rendall ; with an introduction by Warren Motte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bénabou, Marcel.

Contributor:

Rendall, Steven.

Series:

Stages (Series) ; v. 18.

Stages ; v.18

Standardized Title:

Jette ce livre avant qu'il soit trop tard. English

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

xv, 177 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001]

Summary:

"" In one of the most thought-provoking and wry books by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, readers become party to the dilemma of "challenging" literature in a singularly involving and amusing fashion.

Opening a book that has mysteriously appeared amid the clutter of his desk, the narrator finds himself exhorted not to read further, to throw the book away! Instead (but of course) he tries different strategies for approaching the book, none of which work. The narrator's tempestuous, increasingly obsessive relationship with the book he is determined to read, interwoven with the story of a real (but no less enigmatic) love affair, is, in its own challenging way, a charmed and charming, deeply provocative meditation upon reading and writing, and their inevitable discontents. "Dump This Book" offers a new angle on the work of this original writer and an ironic perspective on the power of reading to produce meaning.

ISBN:

0803213190

0803261861

OCLC:

45700570