The Fool and Other Moral Tales Format: Paperback

Anne Serre

ISBN 10: 0811227162 / ISBN 13: 9780811227162

Published by WW Norton Publishers, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fool and Other Moral Tales Format: Paperback
• Publisher: WW Norton Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811227162
• ISBN 13: 9780811227162
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre―author of the celebrated Governesses―come three delicious, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales.

Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas.  The Fool “may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them…a figure observing you can turn the world upside down.”  The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: “Outcasts who can’t even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story.” Little Table, Set Yourself!―a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous―is the most overtly a fable of these three works, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin.  A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.

About the Authors

The author of fourteen novels and short story books, Anne Serre was born in 1960. Her work has been acclaimed here as “hypnotic, enchanting” (Publishers Weekly), “tight and fabulist” (Full Stop), and ”strange and beguiling” (Kirkus).

Mark Hutchinson was born in London in 1957 and lives in Paris. Among his many translations are René Char’s Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance and The Inventors and Other Poems.