It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is De’sire’ Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Acade’mie F
Eric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstanding: the belief that a novel's narrator must necessarily be a mouthpiece for his or her writer's own opinions.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards.Praise for Palafox:"Beautiful. . . . Very amusing. . . . Chevillard takes real narrative risks. . . . A must for anyone interested in anti-realist
Eric Chevillard's visionary play of word and thought has been compared to the work of Beckett, Michaux, and Pinget, yet the universe he spins is utterly his own. Palafox (Editions de Minuit, 1990), Ch
The Crab Nebula is comprised of fifty-two vivid chapters that provide startling insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab: his nightmarish - and none too solid - physique, his myste
