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Sens-plastique / Malcolm de Chazal ; translated from the French, with an introduction by Irving Weiss ; with a foreword by W.H. Auden.
Van Pelt Library PQ3989.C42 S413 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chazal, Malcolm de, 1902-1981.
- Series:
- Green Integer (Series)
- Green Integer
- Standardized Title:
- Sens-plastique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Aphorisms and apothegms.
- Physical Description:
- 779 pages ; 16 cm.
- Edition:
- First Green Integer edition.
- Place of Publication:
- København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; Saint Paul, Minn. : Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2008.
- Summary:
- First published in de Chazal's native Mauritius in 1947, Sens-Plastique, consisting of hundreds of brilliantly entertaining aphorisms, is becoming a worldwide classic. Irving Weiss' stunning translation reveals a new masterwork to the English-language reader.
- Notes:
- The original was first published as Sens-plastique (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1948).
- "131."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781933382678
- 1933382678
- OCLC:
- 144518942
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