Prehistoric Times (Paperback)

Eric Chevillard

ISBN 10: 193574416X / ISBN 13: 9781935744160

Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett's world- a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression gets straight to the point. In an entirely original voice, Eric Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the paths we've been traveling, and where we might be going - or not. Chevillard asks luminous and very funny questions about who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prehistoric Times (Paperback)
• Publisher: Archipelago Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193574416X
• ISBN 13: 9781935744160
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett’s world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression gets straight to the point. In an entirely original voice, Eric Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the paths we’ve been traveling, and where we might be going – or not.

About the Author

Eric Chevillard is one of the most inventive authors writing in French today. His novels include On the Ceiling, The Crab Nebula, and Demolishing Nisard, all translated by Jordan Stump, and Palafox (Archipelago), translated by Wyatt Mason.

Alyson Waters’s translations include Albert Cossery’s A Splendid Conspiracy and The Colors of Infamy, Vassilis Alexakis’s Foreign Words, René Belletto’s Coda, and – with Donald Nicholson-Smith – Yasmina Khadra’s Cousin K. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Yale University and New York University.