The flight of Icarus (A New Directions book)

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ISBN-10:

0811204820

ISBN-13:

9780811204828

Author(s): QUENEAU, RAYMOND
Released: Jan 01, 1973
Format: Hardcover, 191 pages
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Description:

In late nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he s working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute. These hilarious adventures make Queneau s novel, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jokes in modern literature.











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