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Dying / René Belletto ; translated by Alexander Hertich.
- Title
- Dying / René Belletto ; translated by Alexander Hertich.
- Author
- Belletto, René.
- Publication
- Champaign, Ill : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2662.E4537 M6813 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hertich, Alexander.
- Description
- ix, 165 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Take several genre novels telling similar stories of love and death--a spy novel, a romance, an adventure tale--mix them together so that items and images from each start popping up in the others, add playful asides--such as a several-page historical digression on the etymology of the word "prison"--And a collagist's sensibility, and you might end up with the untethered celebration of writing that is novelist Rene Belletto's Dying. Built upon two obliquely converse stories--one of a man who finds himself paying ransom for a woman he's never met, the other of a man who fakes his own death to escape a woman whose devotion has begun to terrify him--Belletto's weird, funny, surprising, and wonderful novel cuts strange and circuitous byways through the landscapes of contemporary literature.
- "Rene Belletto is an Infinitely Intriguing Writer, In Large Part Because he Never Fails to Astonish."--Warren Motte, World Literature Today --Book Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Mourir. English
- Alternative Title
- Mourir.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Black humor (Literature)
- Fiction
- Note
- Originally published in French as Mourir, 2002.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781564785930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1564785939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010017537
- OCLC
- 601097466
- SCSB-12519558
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library