Miss Nobody Knows / Leslie Kaplan ; translated by Jennifer Pap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Leslie, author.

Contributor:

Pap, Jennifer, translator.

Standardized Title:

Depuis maintenant. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French fiction--20th century.

French fiction.

Suicide--Fiction.

Suicide.

General Strike, France, 1968--Fiction.

General Strike, France, 1968.

France.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Tripwire Editions, [2025]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

This book is from May 1968. Two characters occupy the stage: Sťphane and Miss Nobody Knows. Both are desperate. But while one lies and tells stories, the other makes his anguish a motor for itself. Perhaps, for others surely. For the narrator, for example, who, one can imagine wrote this book because of her. It is both an evocation and an inquiry. evocation of the great 1968 strike. "Something is happening." Hope; the wait, the recovery, the disappointment, or the stupor, rather. Miss Nobody Knows is like the living figure. She keeps asking questions, questions. It disappears as it appeared, without explanation or justification. She will come back. The investigation, concerns the suicide of Sťphane, uncle of the narrator, brilliant in advertising, seemingly spoiled child of the glorious 30s, and at the same time, a knot of contradictions, bad conscience, an anguish to make others pay. How, why is he dead? Who was he?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Translation of: Depuis maintenant : Miss Nobody Knows.

Originally published by P.O.L. Editeur, 1996.

ISBN:

9798218613679

OCLC:

1534558078

Publisher Number:

90104892145