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The Libera Me Domine,
fiction, paper, 238 pp. |
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978087376091 |
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Publication Date |
1978,
2002 |
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$14.50 |
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The anatomy of a French village, revealed
through its "network of gossip and absurd remarks" At the novel’s end, we do
not know who killed the Ducreux boy (he has become "little Frederic who had
been violated in the woods by a sex maniac") or if old Lorpailleur is mad;
but we do feel we have lived in a provincial French village…at a bone deep
level no logic bound tale could have reached.
John Updike The New Yorker
The Independent
Obituary by
John Sturrock
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Monsieur Songe,
(containing Monsieur Songe, The Harness and Plough) fiction,
paper, 120pp. |
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0-87376-060-3 |
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1988 |
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$10.95 |
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"For some twenty years I have been finding
relaxation from my work in scribbling these stories about Monsieur Songe"
R.P.
Flawlessly translated by Barbara Wright
Monsieur Songe is a sympathetic and original creation Anne Whitehouse
NY Times Book Review
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Passacaglia, fiction, paper, 96pp. |
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9780873760921 |
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1978, 2002 |
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$10.95, |
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The "Master" ruminates on the
death of an idiot who lived with him for which he may or may not be
responsible and on his own death. His ruminations are the "passacaglia" ,
the barely audible recurring melody of the book.
Passacaglia, in part
because it is shorter, is a more intense, sombre and moving work than "The
Libera Me Domine" …Unlike Beckett he (Pinget) has not turned his back on the
seethe of circumstance …Pinget strikes us as free of any basically
distorting mannerism or aesthetic pose. His recourse remains to the real,
without irony….he manifests the two essential passions of a maker: a love of
his material and a belief in his method.
John Updike The New Yorker
The Independent
Obituary by
John Sturrock
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Someone, fiction, cloth, 168 pp. |
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0-87376-043-3 |
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Publication Date |
1984 |
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14.95 |
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...an occasion for
celebration…Someone, which won the prix Femina in 1965 remains central to
Pinget’s works…Pinget effects the metamorphosis of "Someone" first into No
one and finally and miraculously into Everyman with mordant wit and infinite
sympathy for the human condition Choice.
Someone is characteristically
subtle, brilliant and obsessive, a splendid performance by a writer
insufficiently well-known in this country. — Donald Barthelme
Someone, a benign and self accusing
presence, "a decent fellow on a rather small scale," "a wet blanket", moves
through the rooms, corridors, and garden of a guest house, searching for a
ball of paper, notes taken while "herborizing". In the course of the search
we come to know the inhabitants and someone, himself; "I shall never be able
to talk about their affairs…without scrutinizing myself"...
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Théo or the New Era, fiction,
paper, 31pp. |
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0-87376-079-4 |
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Publication Date |
1984 |
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$6.95 |
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Great texts now run together in the mind of the
old man who no longer puts out his lamp at night. Questioned by the child,
Theo, he finds renewal. Indistinct voices. Wait until they take shape. Is
that the expression. At his nocturnal writings the old man hesitates over
every word. The owl is silent now.
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That Voice, fiction, paper, 114pp. |
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9780-87376-097-3 |
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1982,2007 |
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$12.95 |
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A story of death and disintegration
in a French village in which nothing disappears or is lost. "The primary aim
was to capture a voice" Pinget writes. That Voice is hard to hear,
indistinct, made up of many voices going back over generations yet it is
also "the same from beginning to end"
This short novel is quintessential later work by one of literature’s
most daunting, intriguing avant -gardists: it is fiction like unidentifiable
soup, chocked with ingredients which seem homely enough but are at first
unexplainable;…There are repeated runic sayings ("Traces of effacement" is
the most charged one here)…Pinget starts with gossipy speculation; but
through it is threaded a meditation on whether death and remembering and
written language can be anything more than a damage done- an investigation
of whether memory can or can’t be made into record…Immensely difficult; but,
for the most serious readers, immensely rewarding.
Kirkus
That Voice is a
text containing not only numerous sentences which fade into a series of
periods, but also characters and events which have as little stability as
wind-swept cumulus clouds…One listens to the tones; one’s mind drifts along
with the narrating voice that combines and recombines memories and
imaginings. International Fiction Review
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Traces of Ink,
fiction, paper, 71pp. |
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0-87376-089-1 |
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Publication Date |
2000 |
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$8.95 |
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Pinget’s last book and the
fourteenth to be translated by Barbara Wright. An owl comes out at nightfall
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All the mystery of the garden awakens.
There are unknown shadows, secret breaths.
Life at that hour
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