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Frenchman Jacques Revel arrives in Bleston (a thinly disguised, reimagined Manchester) to begin work as a shipping clerk. Lost under the spell of a dark, dank, labyrinthine metropolis, he endeavours to solve the puzzle of an attempted murder. We follow his erratic odyssey in diary form as a growing sense of unease envelops him and mysterious fires erupt throughout the city.
Passing Time, originally published in France as 'L'emploi du temps' (1956), is the great, lost Manchester novel, a book of enormous imagination and vitality. Melding Greek myth and Proustian method to formulate a brilliant study of alienation and the nebulousness of memory. A work that attempts to excavate Britain's proto-capitalist past and industrial forebears—interrogating their affect on modernity and the human soul.
'L'Emploi du temps' won the 1957 Fénéon Prize.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. First published in 1956 as 'L'Emploi du temps'-Michel Butor's second novel & winner of the 1957 Prix Feneon, 'Passing Time' is one of the supreme poetic fictions to be associated with the controversial Nouveau Roman movement. The great, lost Manchester novel and a milestone in the history of Mancunian literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780993037870
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