Mauve Desert - Softcover

Brossard, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771016859 ISBN 13: 9780771016851

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1998

Synopsis

Mauve Desert is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, 15-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother’s lover Lorna in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maude Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book – Mauve, the Horizon – is Laures’ eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original. Nicole Brossard’s writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Here is the night landscape of writing and its translation: their un/read erotics. Brossard words desire as a wasteland/paradise motel of language and courage, textualization and difference. This traduction/translation/transportation refuses the familiar erosions of the mind/body question and arouses an aesthetic of expression/perception.”
–Aritha Van Herk

“In Mauve Desert, Nicole Brossard writes from the point of impact; from the collisions between languages, between forms and ideas, between cultures and genders. Her effects too are the effects of collisions: brilliant sparks and white hot fragments, alarm and the possibility of danger, and a momentary light in which we glimpse the bizarrely distorted faces of strangers, which turn out after all to have been our own.”
–Margaret Atwood

About the Author:

Nicole Brossard, a poet, essayist, and novelist, has published more than twenty books, including A Book, French Kiss, Lovhers, The Aerial Letter, Mauve Desert, and Baroque at Dawn. Her innovative work on language has influenced a whole generation on the questions of postmodernist and feminist writing. She is the winner of numerous awards, including two Governor General’s awards, the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and Le prix Athanase-David (the highest literary recognition in Quebec literature). Nicole Brossard lives in Montreal.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0771016859
• ISBN 13: 9780771016851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192