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Readopolis
- Title
- Readopolis / Bertrand Laverdure ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.
- Author
- Laverdure, Bertrand, 1967-
- Publication
- Toronto : BookThug, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-2800 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Avasilichioaei, Oana
- Description
- 254 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis-a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic. In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution."--
- Series Statement
- Literature in translation series
- Uniform Title
- Lectodôme. English
- Literature in translation series.
- Alternative Title
- Lectodôme.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Lectodôme.
- "Originally published under the title: Lectodôme © Bertrand Laverdure & Le Quartanier, Montreal 2008"-- Title page verso.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2800
- ISBN
- 9781771662987
- 1771662980
- OCLC
- 961802249
- Author
- Laverdure, Bertrand, 1967- author.
- Title
- Readopolis / Bertrand Laverdure ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.
- Publisher
- Toronto : BookThug, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First English edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Literature in translation seriesLiterature in translation series.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Avasilichioaei, Oana, translator.
- Other Form:
- Laverdure, Bertrand, 1967- Lectodôme. English. Readopolis. First English edition. Literature in translation series Literature in translation series (CaOONL)20179007432
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2800