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FRENCH SERIES |
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works by
Robert Pinget | works by
Francis Ponge | works by
other French authors |
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works by Robert Pinget: Translated by Barbara
Wright
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Abel and Bela play, paper, 25pp. |
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ISBN |
ISBN 0-87376-052-2 |
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Publication Date |
1987 |
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$5.00 |
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Two actors: Abel and Bela set
about writing a play.
Abel and Bela was first performed in Strasbourg in the
1970s. It was given a reading by the Ubu Repertory Theater, New York in
1984. A production by the Comédie Française was staged in Avignon, in the
summer of 1987. Pinget, is the author of such plays as Dead Letter, The Old
Tune,
Hypothesis, Architruc, Identité and Paralchimie.
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Be Brave, fiction, paper, 31pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-075-1 |
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Publication Date |
1994 |
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$6.95 |
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Resisting his decline Monsieur Songe amuses
himself with hilarious versions of his own death
Barbara Wright is our
foremost literary translator from the French, and in these short texts she
deploys her awe-inspiring skills to impressive effect.
Exquisite but slight
compositions (Be Brave and Théo ) International Fiction Review
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A Bizarre Will,
plays containing: A Bizarre Will, Mortin Not Dead, Dictation, Sophism and
Sadism, The Chrysanthemum, Crazy Notion, Night and About
Nothing, paper, 81pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-065-4 |
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Publication Date |
1989 |
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$10.95 |
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Seven plays first aired on
Radio Stuttgart. Pinget of the novels sharply and powerfully focused on a
smaller scene with fewer voices.
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The Apocrypha fiction, cloth ,143
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ISBN |
0-87376-050-6 |
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Publication Date |
1986 |
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$14.95 |
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"The narrator attempts to take up once
again the thread of an obsolete discourse to hear the murmur, which stops
at the slightest sign of inadvertence to preserve a word of love lingering
in the deepest recesses of the ear
We know the difference between history,
fiction and myth. We also know that these three provinces are bound
together, that any gesture of separating one from another must be to a large
extent arbitrary. Only Pinget has made teleology, myth and the culture of the
West the vehicle for a sustained, poetic and structural investigation. It is
done in the interests of that complex syrrhesis which Serres identifies as
the ungraspable structure of human history Stephen Bann
Pinget bulks large
in the present rather lean world literary scene - a determinedly
experimental and unfettered writer whose education in music, painting and
the law help give his curious oeuvre resonance. The Apocrypha seems to me
not only an extension of Pinget's world but a consummation of it, his best
novel since The Inquisitory
John Updike, The New Yorker
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Between Fantoine and Agapa, fiction,
short stories, cloth, 83pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-040-9 |
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Publication Date |
1982 |
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$10.95 |
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Robert Pinget's first prose work, published in
France in 1950. I was still very much under the influence of the
surrealists. Logic seemed to me to be incapable of attaining the very
special domain of literature. An intense desire to abolish all the
constraints of classical writing made me produce these exercises. This little
volume contains in embryo all the forms taken by my later works. Preface
Between Fantoine and Agapa for all its buffoonery was a venture into the
unknown
Review
John Updike The New Yorker
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The Enemy, fiction, paper, 87pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-071-9 |
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Publication Date |
1991 |
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$12.95 |
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In this, the translator is Pinget's virtual
twin: a shadowy double glimpsed in a mirror, at a distance, as through a
glass darkly. Barbara Wright is at ease (or perhaps at a finely attuned
unease?) with the shifting registers of The Enemy.
Peter Broome
International Fiction Review
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Fable, fiction, cloth, 61pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-036-0 |
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Publication Date |
1980 |
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$10.95 |
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"A love story or rather the story of a
betrayal" R. P.
In this slender book, and in Pinget's others, a certain
authority operates throughout, an authority that slowly reveals itself as
unquestionable. Kirkus
ReviewJohn Updike The New
Yorker
...one has nothing but the homelessness of words: tones
and resonances circulating, naively and tragically, immaculate and stained,
in the shifting space of an inner ear. The domain of Fable is one of
apparitions and eclipses, absences which give support and presences which
cause collapse. Do not fail to read this recent voice of Robert Pinget.
Peter Broome,
International Fiction Review
The town smoking under its ruins The boy with
the delphiniums. A shattered, rampant passion that adopts a multiple form
to retrieve its scattered fragments, Proteus of despair.
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