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The conductor and other tales / Jean Ferry ; illustrations by Claude Ballaré ; translated by Edward Gauvin.
- Title
- The conductor and other tales / Jean Ferry ; illustrations by Claude Ballaré ; translated by Edward Gauvin.
- Author
- Ferry, Jean, 1906-1974
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2013]
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2611.E76 M413 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gauvin, Edward
- Description
- xxxiii, 141 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
- Summary
- First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and enthusiastically praised by André Breton), The Conductor and Other Tales is Jean Ferry's only published book of fiction. It is a collection of short prose narratives that offer a blend of pataphysical humor and surreal nightmare: secret societies so secret that one cannot know if one is a member or not, music-hall acts that walk a tightrope from humor to horror, childhood memories of a man never born, and correspondence from countries that are more states of mind than geographical locales. Lying somewhere between Kafka's parables and the prose poems of Henri Michaux, Ferry's tales read like pages from the journal of a stranger in a familiar land. Though extracts have appeared regularly in Surrealist anthologies over the decades, The Conductor has never been fully translated into English until now. This edition includes four stories not included in the original French edition and is illustrated throughout with collages by Claude Ballaré.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Notice -- A nice spot for a stroll -- Aboard the Valdivia -- Kafka, or "The secret society" -- Letter to a stranger -- Robinson -- The traveler with luggage -- My aquarium -- The garbagemen's strike -- On the frontiers of plaster (A few notes on sleep) -- The Chinese astrologer -- Homage to Baedeker -- Rapa nui -- The conductor -- Carbuncles -- A tear in his eye -- Raymond Roussel in heaven -- Childhood memories -- The inconvenience of childhood memories -- Failure of a fine career in letters -- The society tiger.
- ISBN
- 9781939663016
- 1939663016
- LCCN
- 2014430084
- OCLC
- 845516619
- SCSB-10619297
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library