My Beautiful Bus (French Literature Series) - Softcover

Jouet, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564787990 ISBN 13: 9781564787996

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

Synopsis

Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet, this fictional reconstruction focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous vehicle and its occupants.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Jouet was elected to the Oulipo in 1983. He is the author of more than sixty texts in a variety of genres-novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and short fiction-including the novels Mountain R (part of his La Re?publique roman cycle), Savage, and Upstaged, all published by Dalkey Archive.

Review:

““At the wheel of his latest book, half-hidden by the driver, Basile, [Jacques Jouet] continues his quest for meaning through words and sounds . . . Points of departure and arrival are less important here than the journey itself, which invokes Perrault, Pascal, and the Abbé Prévost as the miles roll past. A defense of movement, be it physical or imagined, that fabulous movement which gave birth to the book.”” (Jessica Nelson - Le Magazine littéraire)

““From the perspective of American readers, Jacques Jouet’s writing is one of contemporary French literature’s best-kept secrets . . . and the fault is ours rather than his, because Jouet himself has been producing smart, funny, vibrant, pungent literature in astonishing diversity and abundance for the last quarter century.”” (Warren Motte - CONTEXT)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1564787990
• ISBN 13: 9781564787996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130