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The investigation : a novel / Philippe Claudel ; translated from the French by John Cullen.
Van Pelt Library PQ2663.L31148 E5713 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claudel, Philippe, 1962-
- Standardized Title:
- Enquête. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Fiction.
- Suicide.
- Dystopias.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2012]
- Summary:
- Claudel undertakes a sweeping critique of the contemporary world through a variety of modes. Like Kafka, Beckett, and Huxley, he has crafted a dark, quest-centered fable that evokes the absurdity and alienation of existence with piercing intelligence and considerable humor.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in France as L'enquête by Éditions Stock, Paris, in 2010."
- ISBN:
- 9780385535342
- 0385535341
- OCLC:
- 751922107
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