Jean Echenoz
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Bir Yil
Daha dün gibi hatirliyorum bu kücümen kitabi nereden aldigimi. Montparnasse garindan trene binip Marsilyaya gidiyordum. Büyülendim. Kisa bir sürede bitince, tüm iyi romanlarda sizi carpan his, geldi cöktü üstüme Niye bitti ki Hakikaten, niye bitmisti ki Ben, Echenozun yeni Fransiz romaninin en büyük üstatlarindan biri oldugunu bu romanla anladim. Arkasindan Ben Gidiyorumu okudum. Ayni minvalde bir hikayeydi. O da sahaneydi. Isin tuhaf tarafi, bu kücümen Bir Yil da, Goncourt ödülü alan Ben Gidiyorum da, aslinda, amacsiz, plansiz, nedensiz bir kacisin hikayesi. Kahraman niye kendini yollara vurur, niye oradan oraya salinir, basina niye tüm bu anlamsiz seyler gelir, dünyaya niye böyle bakar ve daha da önemlisi, nasil böyle büyük bir kayitsizlikla, büyük bir sefkatle bakar, sorup durdum kendime... Cözemedim. Cözdügüm tek sey, bu romanlarin büyük bir okuma keyfi barindirdigi. Bu tecrübenin kacirilacak bir tecrübe olmadigini düsünüyorum. Hakikisini yapamayacagimiza, yani anahtarlarimizi kapinin yanindaki masaya birakip, kapiyi acip, cikip, merdivenlerden inip, öylesine, nedensiz, kaderimizin bizi götürdügü yere gidemeyecegimize göre... En iyisi, okumak. -LY-
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Ravel
A NovelA beautifully musical little novel.”—The New York Times Book Review Echenoz’s prose is stylish and delightfully soft-pedaled leaving the sensation of a life lived exclusively for the creation of art.”—Publisher’s Weekly Every word is perfectly placed; the writing is fluid like a garment that fits beautifully even inside-out.”—Elle (Paris)
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Three By Echenoz
Running, Piano, and Big BlondesLinda Coverdale's most recent translation for The New Press was Jean Echenoz's 1914. She was the recipient of the French-American Foundation's 2008 Translation Prize for her translation of Echenoz's Ravel (The New Press). She lives in Brooklyn. Mark Polizzotti has translated over forty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, Raymond Roussel, Patrick Modiano, and Jean Echenoz, and has written six of his own. He directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he lives. Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based critic, translator, and moderator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. She is the author of the illustrated lexicon Wordbirds, and her recent translations include the novels Every Day, Every Hour by Natasa Dragnic and The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
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I'm Off And One Year
A man at Ferrer's time of life should be starting to treat himself - and his heart - carefully, not living the bachelor life in the Paris atelier that doubles as his art gallery. And when she has lost her belongings, her money, her looks and almost herself - one year later - the coast is clear for her to come back to Paris.
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The Queen's Caprice
StoriesPraise for Jean Echenoz:"The most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel." The Washington Post"Writing lives! [Echenoz's] words are full of grace and surprises, and he has the ability to throw relationships among them just off-center enough to make the images of people they convey seem all the more compelling and fresh." The New York Times Book Review"Rarely has the difficult craft of storytelling been as well mastered." Times Literary Supplement"A gentle tending to perversity links Echenoz to that other master of perverse detail, Vladimir Nabokov." Los Angeles Times"[A] miniaturist who paints frescoes." Journal du Dimanche"Jean Echenoz’s short short stories are quirky, playful and subversive: Admiral Nelson is always seasick, the statues in the Luxembourg Garden wear baffling expressions, a beautiful woman swims underwater to an assignation. Once again, Echenoz masterfully reinvents the world by creating the illusion that improbable events might in fact be probable." Lily Tuck, author of The News from Paraguay"There is an echo of García Márquez in these simple yet enigmatic pages. Echenoz gives us a slim series of elegant, tightly written tales, achieving a simple kind of magic.” Kirkus Reviews
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Big Blondes
Renowned singer Gloire Stella has mysteriously disappeared. When a television producer tries to track her down, Gloire goes on the run. From the cliffs of Brittany to the back alleys of Bombay, this is nonstop adventure for anyone who has ever wondered whether blondes really do have more fun.
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I'm Gone
A Novel"A mystery that doubles as a sly work of serious literature. . . . This novel is a quick read and a true jewel." Kirkus Reviews"I'm Gone combines the policier, the cultural essay and the urban sex novel to create a vivid, entertaining, hybrid."—The New York Times Book Review"Combining the offhand wit of Raymond Chandler with the narrative agility of Peter Høeg, Echenoz crafts a clever, philosophical tale."—Publishers Weekly"With a wink and a nod and an easy manner of style, Echenoz all but tells us outright not to take any of this too seriously to enjoy I'm Gone in the same devil-may-care spirit in which it is offered."—The Boston Sunday Globe"A mordantly humorous work."—Bookforum"Echenoz both employs and subverts the convention of the adventure and detective genres in this sly send-up of contemporary art life."—Library Journal
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Fatale
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We Three
After a series of coincidences and disasters 3 people find themselves aboard a spacecraft. Brimming with Jean Echenoz’s inimitable humor, We Three is both a satirical take on the adventure novel and subtle experiment with narrative point of view.
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Ravel
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Lightning
A Novel"Echenoz captures the spare beauty of Tesla, this often-drawn and much-translated figure, till his death at 86. He is a lean ghost in the history of power, electricity and invention. Echenoz fixes him even more firmly in our imaginations."—Los Angeles TimesStarred Review. Not many nineteenth-century inventors would first dazzle an employer with unprecedented feats of electrical engineering and then relieve that employer from the unexpected burden of paying promised premiums for those feats by tearing up a contract worth millions. But readers meet such a rare genius in this engrossing novel, a finely etched fictional portrait of Nikola Tesla (here depicted as Gregor), a talented immigrant who begins life in the U.S. as an underpaid troubleshooter for Thomas Edison but whose exceptional gifts eventually make him Edison’s formidable rival. But readers see much more than the extensively chronicled Edison-Tesla rivalry. Probing deep into Tesla’s tangled psyche, Echenoz illuminates unexpected tensions. Fearless when enveloped by lightening, Gregor quails before an admiring woman. Able to penetrate the most elusive secrets of high-voltage power, he yields to the wildest delusions, succumbing to fantasies of Martian contacts and of Death-Ray weaponry. And, finally, this complex man, a human meteor who soars into America’s cultural stratosphere, sharing social space with John Pierpont Morgan and Mark Twain, carelessly tumbles into oblivion, keeping company mostly with park pigeons. Coverdale’s nuanced translation of Echenoz’s highly successful French original permits English-speaking readers to contemplate the human mystery that persists long after the scientific puzzles have been solved. BooklistThe affecting story of a difficult and misunderstood European visionary on American shores comprises this lyrical, slender novel by Prix Goncourt winner Echenoz (Running). Born during a lightning storm "somewhere in southeastern Europe" in the mid-19th century, Gregor has many wonderfully inventive ideas from an early age a rapid mail tube running under the Atlantic Ocean, harnessing the power of Niagara Falls for energy and soon the bright young engineer lands in America, where he ends up working with Thomas Edison, who is less than convinced by Gregor's ideas about alternating current. George Westinghouse, however, is intrigued, and as AC becomes the electrical standard, everybody gets rich, even Gregor, for a while. However, with each succeeding electrical marvel, described by an admiring omniscient narrator who admits to being "mystified" by science, Gregor is increasingly dismissed as a crackpot, and other less than scrupulous inventors make off with his world-altering inventions. Echenoz constructs a sympathetic, stylized portrait of an isolated genius stricken by obsessive compulsiveness, a friend only to pigeons at the end. Publishers Weekly
€ 20,95