Poetics of work / Noémi Lefebvre ; translated from the French by Sophie Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Noémi, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Lewis, Sophie, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--France--Fiction.

Unemployment.

Poets--Fiction.

Poets.

France.

Fathers--Fiction.

Fathers.

Parent and child--Fiction.

Parent and child.

Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Lyon (France)--Fiction.

Lyon (France).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : TRANSIT Books, 2021.

Summary:

A state of emergency is declared in "the good city of Lyon" and protesters and police clash in the streets. At the unemployment office, there are few job opportunities for poets going around. So the poet reads accounts of life under the Third Reich and in Nazi language, smokes cannabis, walks through the streets, and eats bananas, drawn by an overbearing father into a hilarious and often cynical exploration of the push to be employed and the pull to write. In this Oulipean experiment written without gender markers for its narrator, Noémi Lefebvre presents us with a comic and irreverent reckoning with the rise of nationalism and the hegemony capitalism has on our language, actions, and identities.

Notes:

"A state of emergency has been declared in France. In Lyon, protesters and police clash in the streets. At the unemployment office, there are few job opportunities for poets going around. So the poet reads accounts of life under the Third Reich and in Nazi language, smokes cannabis, walks through the streets, and eats bananas, drawn by an overbearing father into a hilarious and often cynical exploration of the push to be employed and the pull to write. In this Oulipian experiment written without gender markers for its narrator, Noémi Lefebvre presents us with a comic and irreverent reckoning with the rise of nationalism and the hegemony capitalism has on our language, actions, and identities."--Publisher.

ISBN:

1945492449

9781945492440

OCLC:

1144110344

Publisher Number:

99987024870