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Tomb for 500,000 soldiers / [Pierre Guyotat].
Van Pelt Library PQ2667.U9 T613 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guyotat, Pierre, 1940-2020.
- Series:
- Creation modern classics ; 2.
- Creation modern classics ; 2
- Standardized Title:
- Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 378 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Creation, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- This is the first English translation of French writer, Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel, which was recently included in "Le Monde"'s "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century." A violent collision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy, Guyotat is said to have hallucinated the subject matter as a young soldier during the Algerian war, where the novel is set.
- Pierre Guyotat was born in France in 1940. His most recent book is "Progenitors" (Gallimard, 2000).
- ISBN:
- 1840680628
- OCLC:
- 51781375
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