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Paper City
Nathalie Stephens
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Description for Paper City
Paperback. Through the disquieting absence of the letters characters n and b, and the narrator's attempt to uncover and record their lives, this book confronts and challenges human proscription through the untranslatibility of experience, with ironic and apocalyptic consequences. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 157.
In a Paper City write nothing down. So commands this text, which dismantles itself as it charts its own admonished course, navigating the interstices between English and French, the author's two mother tongues. Through the disquieting absence of the letters characters n and b, and the narrator's attempt to uncover and record their lives, Stephens confronts and challenges human proscription through the untranslatibility of experience, with ironic and apocalyptic consequences. Beneath this thin narrative runs an undercurrent of horror that decries the deliberate plunder of the City resulting from an absolute disregard for history's relationship to the body's fictions -- ... Read more
In a Paper City write nothing down. So commands this text, which dismantles itself as it charts its own admonished course, navigating the interstices between English and French, the author's two mother tongues. Through the disquieting absence of the letters characters n and b, and the narrator's attempt to uncover and record their lives, Stephens confronts and challenges human proscription through the untranslatibility of experience, with ironic and apocalyptic consequences. Beneath this thin narrative runs an undercurrent of horror that decries the deliberate plunder of the City resulting from an absolute disregard for history's relationship to the body's fictions -- ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451267
SKU
V9781552451267
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Ref
99-15
About Nathalie Stephens
Nathalie Stephens writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Her most recent works include L'Injure, Paper City and Je Nathanael, which was also released in English self-translation (BookThug, 2006). L'Injure was a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois and le Prix Trillium; the fiction Underground was a finalist in 2000 for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto. Stephens ... Read more
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