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Agnès's final afternoon : an essay on the work of Milan Kundera / François Ricard ; translated from the French by Aaron Asher.
Van Pelt Library PG5039.21.U6 Z86713 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ricard, François, 1947-
- Standardized Title:
- Dernier après-midi d'Agnès. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kundera, Milan.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 210 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Francois Ricard's book joins the great French tradition of the literary essay as a meditation on the writing of Milan Kundera." "Agnes's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnes steps out of her car - out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self - and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. Francois Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the novel."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The Novel of Fighting
- The Novel of Exile
- An Oeuvre's Borders
- Topography
- A Single Book
- About Dogs
- A Study of Rivers
- Balzac's Strategy
- The Path-Novel
- A Canon for Several Voices
- Intertwining Stories
- Stories Dreamed
- Stories from the Past
- The Novelist Self
- The Novel's Thought
- Thematic Unity
- The Rehabilitation of Episode
- The Art of the Chapter
- The Novelistic Moment
- The Libertine
- The Exile
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0060005645
- 9780060005641
- OCLC:
- 51281073
- Online:
- Publisher description
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