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Black Forest by Katie Shireen Assef (English) Paperback Book
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9781944700904
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781944700904
- Book Title
- Black Forest
- Publisher
- Unnamed Press
- Item Length
- 7 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Absurdist, General, Literary
- Item Weight
- 3.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Unnamed Press
ISBN-10
1944700900
ISBN-13
9781944700904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038831520
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Forest
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Absurdist, General, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
3.2 Oz
Item Length
7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-930958
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2019Finalist for Big Other's Book Award for Translation"Mréjen's crystalline prose never grasps for sentimentality, and her meticulous, humane, and powerful volume unforgettably depicts the way the dead experience life after death in the traces they leave in the minds of the living." Publishers Weekly "Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence." -- Marine Landrot, Télérama"A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible." -- Eric Chevillard, Le Monde"If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman." -- Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde"[This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side-- The subject here is death." -- Elle France "A masterful and delicate book...Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " -- A.N., l'Humanité"The narrator of Valérie Mréjen's Black Forest recounts a series of deaths, offering a kind of jeweled omnibus of ways to die, in a classy, glassy prose recalling miniaturists par excellence Lydia Davis, Michael Martone, and Robert Walser - think Six Feet Under via Renata Adler's " -- John Madera, novelist and editor of Big Other"In seventy-two pages (including translator's note), Mréjen stalks no less than great Death itself, in all its various tragic or capricious or mundane or shocking or brutal or funny guises." -- Three Percent, Christopher Phipps"Black Forest is a sparse and elegiac novel. Its unrelenting focus on a subject we'd often prefer not to think about makes it a sort of memento mori. Through the scale and disparate passings presented, Mréjen reminds us that while for all of us the moment will come when we pass, death can be a unifying moment rather than just an alienating one. That those who succeed us will do whatever they can and push on. That wherever death might find us, there is also life." -- Kenyon Review, Ian J. Battaglia, Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2019 "Filmmaker Mréjen's extraordinary English-language debut is a catalogue of mortality...Mréjen's crystalline prose never grasps for sentimentality, and her meticulous, humane, and powerful volume unforgettably depicts the way the dead experience life after death in the traces they leave in the minds of the living." -- Publishers Weekly," starred Review "Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence."--Marine Landrot, Télérama "A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible."--Eric Chevillard, Le Monde "If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman."--Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde Featured in Elle France as a "Top Ten" book. They raved, " [This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side-- The subject here is death." "A masterful and delicate book...Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " --A.N., l'Humanité, "Filmmaker and novelist Valerie Mrejen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence."--Marine Landrot, Télérama "A sentence by Valerie Mrejen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mrejen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible."--Eric Chevillard, Le Monde "If Valerie Mrejen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman."--Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde Featured in Elle France as a "Top Ten" book. They raved, " [This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side-- The subject here is death." "A masterful and delicate book...Mrejen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " --A.N., l'Humanité, Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2019 "Filmmaker Mréjen's extraordinary English-language debut is a catalogue of mortality...Mréjen's crystalline prose never grasps for sentimentality, and her meticulous, humane, and powerful volume unforgettably depicts the way the dead experience life after death in the traces they leave in the minds of the living." -- Publishers Weekly," starred Review "Curiously aloof, yet still strangely engaged, much like Peter Handke's seemingly detached even indifferent characters, the narrator of Valérie Mréjen's BLACK FOREST (Deep Vellum Publishing) recounts a series of deaths, offering a kind of jeweled omnibus of ways to die, in a classy, glassy prose recalling miniaturists par excellence Lydia Davis, Michael Martone, and Robert Walser--think SIX FEET UNDER via Renata Adler's SPEEDBOAT." -- John Madera, author of Among the Dynamos and editor of Big Other ." "Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence."--Marine Landrot, Télérama "A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible."--Eric Chevillard, Le Monde "If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman."--Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde Featured in Elle France as a "Top Ten" book. They raved, " [This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side-- The subject here is death." "A masterful and delicate book...Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " --A.N., l'Humanité, "Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence."--Marine Landrot, Télérama "A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible."--Eric Chevillard, Le Monde "If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman."--Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde Featured in Elle France as a "Top Ten" book. They raved, " [This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side-- The subject here is death." "A masterful and delicate book...Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " --A.N., l'Humanité
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Synopsis
A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty - five years dead? Valérie Mr éjen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn ' t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr éjen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning--or non-meaning-- along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr éjen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious., A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty - five years dead? Valerie Mr ejen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn ' t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr ejen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning-or non-meaning- along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr ejen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious., A book of mourning told through a coolly evocative series of life (and death) vignettes, from a lauded French writer, now in English for the first time; #34;Six Feet Under" meets Georges Perec, A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty - five years dead? Val rie Mr jen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn't morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr jen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning--or non-meaning-- along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr jen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious.
LC Classification Number
PQ2673.R45F6713 2019
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