The characters in "Prehistoric Times "remind us of the inhabitants of Samuel Beckett's world: dreamers who in their savage and deductive folly try to modify reality. In an entirely original voice--full of burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures--Eric Chevillard asks luminous and playful questions about who we really are. Winner of the 2003 Prix Wepler for "Le Vaillant petit tailleur," Eric Chevillard is one of the most inventive authors writing in French today. He is also the author of "On the Ceiling," "The Crab Nebula," and "Demolishing Nisard."
Praise for "Palafox "
"The current American new fabulism could learn a great deal from this very amusing book and its willingness to take real narrative risks...Beautifully translated by Wyatt Mason, Palafox is a must for anyone interested in anti-realist fiction." --"Rain Taxi "
"Eric Chevillard involves his reader in a powerful meditation on evil, foolishness, and inhumanity lurking in the heart of man." --Jean-Maurice de Montremy
"Imagine a comedy of manners, a supernatural tale, a sly commentary on science's quest for knowledge, a sad story about a creature that seems to possess characteristics common to marsupials, reptiles, and amphibians, not to mention insects and humans, and you have an inkling of what Eric Chevillard has done in his dark, disturbing, delightful, downright funny story of Palafox. Now mix into this brew some of Ronald Firbank's verbal fireworks, Italo Calvino's imaginative flights of exquisite writing, and Raymond Roussel's weird deadp
Title: Prehistoric Times
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Eric Chevillard
;
Translated by
Alyson Waters
ISBN 13: 9781935744160
ISBN 10: 193574416X
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Imprint: Archipelago Books
Publication Date: 13/03/2012
Place of Publication:
New York,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
843.92
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Height: 165mm
Width: 152mm
Thickness: 13mm
Weight: 159g