Dominique Franois
Dominique Franois - Asero - Paperback
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Description: A singular novel. Lydia Davis author of Can t and Won t and Essays One An exhilarating adventure! Alberto Manguel author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters Extraordinary . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not to be aroused by this whopping treat of verbal virtuosity? Mary Ann Caws author of The Modern Art Cookbook Asero the mushroom as object of fascination. First observed in Tasmania and South Africa it appeared suddenly in France around 1920. It is characterized by its stench and at maturity its grotesque beauty. Asero the word as incantation. Can a word create a world? It does here. Fran ois Dominique is a conjurer who through verbal sorcery unleashes the full force of language while evoking the essential rupture between the word and the object. An impossible endeavor perhaps but one at the very heart of literature. The narrator of Asero wanders medieval streets and dense forests portrait galleries and rare bookshops. As he explores the frontiers of language the boundaries of science art and alchemy melt away and the mundane is overtaken by the bizarre. Inhabited by creatures born in darkness both terrible and alluring Asero is ultimately a meditation on memory and forgetting creation and oblivion. Fran ois Dominique is an acclaimed novelist essayist poet and translator. He has received the Burgundy Prize for Literature and is the author of eight novels including Asero and Sol ne winner of the Wepler Award and Prix litt raire Charles Brisset. He has translated the poetry of Louis Zukofsky and Rainer Maria Rilke and is the cofounder of the publishing house Ulysses - Fin - de - Si cle.
Title: Asero
Author(s): Dominique Franois
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Barcode: 9781942658788
Pages: 176 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Category: Religious & Spiritual Fiction
Description: A singular novel. Lydia Davis author of Can t and Won t and Essays One An exhilarating adventure! Alberto Manguel author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters Extraordinary . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not to be aroused by this whopping treat of verbal virtuosity? Mary Ann Caws author of The Modern Art Cookbook Asero the mushroom as object of fascination. First observed in Tasmania and South Africa it appeared suddenly in France around 1920. It is characterized by its stench and at maturity its grotesque beauty. Asero the word as incantation. Can a word create a world? It does here. Fran ois Dominique is a conjurer who through verbal sorcery unleashes the full force of language while evoking the essential rupture between the word and the object. An impossible endeavor perhaps but one at the very heart of literature. The narrator of Asero wanders medieval streets and dense forests portrait galleries and rare bookshops. As he explores the frontiers of language the boundaries of science art and alchemy melt away and the mundane is overtaken by the bizarre. Inhabited by creatures born in darkness both terrible and alluring Asero is ultimately a meditation on memory and forgetting creation and oblivion. Fran ois Dominique is an acclaimed novelist essayist poet and translator. He has received the Burgundy Prize for Literature and is the author of eight novels including Asero and Sol ne winner of the Wepler Award and Prix litt raire Charles Brisset. He has translated the poetry of Louis Zukofsky and Rainer Maria Rilke and is the cofounder of the publishing house Ulysses - Fin - de - Si cle.
Title: Asero
Author(s): Dominique Franois
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Barcode: 9781942658788
Pages: 176 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Category: Religious & Spiritual Fiction
