1997
DOI: 10.3406/rfea.1997.1699
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« Ostranenye Goes Gevortsing, » or, « the Dethompsoning of Quiddity »: an Eyewitness Report

Abstract: Le premier livre de Ben Marcus n 'est ni un roman, ni un ensemble de nouvelles ; c'est rien moins que l'invention simultanée d'un monde et d'un langage pour le décrire, en léger décrochage du monde et du langage qui nous sont familiers. Ici, le dernier mot de la locution éculée « roman d'apprentissage » désigne la tâche assignée au lecteur. Au reste, entre désignation et ré-assignation, s'éploie l'étonnante aventure d'une imagination qui se fixe pour tâche, section après section, de mettre en relation des noti… Show more

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“…(Marcus 2013, 16) For the most part, the tone of the book is like this: matter-of-fact, detached, and cold, resembling that of an ethnographic treatise, a theological tract, or a technical manual. also Chénetier 1997;Vernon 2001;Evenson 1996). Witness the uneasy mixture of both tones in the book's gloss on 'sadness': "SADNESS -The first powder to be abided upon waking.…”
Section: A Reading: Ben Marcus's the Age Of Wire And String (1995)mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…(Marcus 2013, 16) For the most part, the tone of the book is like this: matter-of-fact, detached, and cold, resembling that of an ethnographic treatise, a theological tract, or a technical manual. also Chénetier 1997;Vernon 2001;Evenson 1996). Witness the uneasy mixture of both tones in the book's gloss on 'sadness': "SADNESS -The first powder to be abided upon waking.…”
Section: A Reading: Ben Marcus's the Age Of Wire And String (1995)mentioning
confidence: 97%