The glory of the Pythres / Richard Millet ; translated from the French by John Cumming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millet, Richard.

Contributor:

Cumming, John.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Gloire des Pythre. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

330 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Marlboro Press/Northwestern Northwestern University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Set in the villages and valleys of France's mountainous provinces, "The Glory of the Pythres" follows the fortunes--or rather, the colossal misfortunes--of the Pythres (pronounced as "pitres," the French word for clowns or buffoons). Of peasant stock, "suspicious, taciturn, mulish, stubborn," the Pythres live a grim existence, locked up with their dead through long winters and passing on their problems like heirlooms to their children. They, like their neighbors, are Others, their culture passing away, their language barely comprehensible to other Frenchmen, their lives defined by tribal hatreds with motives that have long since vanished into history.

ISBN:

0810160498

0810160897

OCLC:

57405972