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With the Animals

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Audience: General/trade ; Professional and scholarly
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 22/05/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, Noelle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand Celine: With the Animals, her shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose linguistic audaciousness is matched only by its brutality, misanthropy, and gallows humor. Narrated by the singular Paul a violent, narrow-minded farmer whose unceasing labor leaves him with more love for his livestock than his family With the Animals is at once a fantastically exaggerated and entirely honest portrait of masculinity gone mad. With his mute and detested wife and children huddled at his side, Paul is only roused from his regimen of hard labor and casual cruelty when a farmhand, Georges, comes to work on his property for the summer.

The first pages of With the Animals herald the arrival of a writer, without a doubt, who reacquaints us with words themselves, with rhythms, with color, with contours, with the materials of language. --Jean-Louis Kuffer, 24 Heures

Title: With the Animals
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Contributors: By (author) Noelle Revaz ; Translated by W. Donald Wilson

ISBN 13: 9781564787545
ISBN 10: 1564787540

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 22/05/2012
Place of Publication: Normal, United States
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Dewey Classification: 843.92 (DC21)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Paperback
Pages: 233
Height: 202mm
Width: 138mm
Thickness: 18mm
Weight: 306g