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Melville: A Novel Paperback Jean Giono
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Publication Name
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- ISBN
- 9781681371375
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681371375
ISBN-13
9781681371375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234272404
Product Key Features
Original Language
French
Book Title
Melville: a Novel
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Psychological, General, Literary, Biographical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-008613
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Melville ...is a powerful testament to the magic of words." --Edmund White, The New York Review of Books "After reading Pour saluer Melville , which is a poet's interpretation of a poet--'a pure invention,' as Giono said in a letter--I was literally beside myself. How often is it the foreigner who teaches us to appreciate our own authors!" --Henry Miller
Dewey Decimal
813.3
Synopsis
Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick , Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick . Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge--to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Proven al novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel --part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile's expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville ., Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick , Jean Giono's Melville- A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick . Melville- A Novel imagines what happened in between- the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge-to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Proven al novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville- A Novel -part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile's expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville .
LC Classification Number
PQ2613.I57P6513 2017
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