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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kramer, Pascale, 1961- Autopsy of a father. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2017 (DLC) 2017016277 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Pascale Kramer; Robert Bononno |
| ISBN: | 9781942658245 1942658249 |
| OCLC Number: | 959038428 |
| Notes: | Translated from the French. "Autopsy of a Father first appeared in French as Autopsie d'un pè̀re, Copyright 2016 by Flammarion"--Title page verso. |
| Description: | 204 pages ; 20 cm |
| Other Titles: | Autopsie d'un père. |
| Responsibility: | Pascale Kramer ; English translation by Robert Bononno. |
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Advance Praise for Autopsy of a FatherFinalist for the La Closerie des Lilas, Ouest-France, and Orange du Livre Prizes"Restrained, chiseled, implacable, the novels of Pascale Kramer perfectly master the art of creating a diffuse discomfort. Poignant." Marie Claire (Switzerland)"This novel masterfully establishes the cross-transmission of misunderstandings within families and those that take root at the heart of society. Ignored, they lead to unimaginable violence, all the way to the cemetery, where not even the dead can rest." Le Point"[Kramer's] fiction penetrates the terrain of the intimate, places itself in the blind spot of analysis and statistics, and makes silent explosions palpable." L'Echo"[Kramer's] talent is to lead us into human interiority from concrete situations, through details that are all the more effective because they're delivered without judgment. . . . In this autopsy of a recognizable world, there is pleasure to be taken in the text, in spite of the seriousness of the subject." Le Devoir"Pascale Kramer depicts a society where misunderstanding and insecurity feed fear, which leads to aggressive mistrust, rejection, and hatred, the fatal poison of which little by little contaminates everyone." Avant-Critiques Advance Praise for Autopsy of a FatherFinalist for the La Closerie des Lilas, Ouest-France, and Orange du Livre Prizes "Restrained, chiseled, implacable, the novels of Pascale Kramer perfectly master the art of creating a diffuse discomfort. Poignant." -Marie Claire (Switzerland)"This novel masterfully establishes the cross-transmission of misunderstandings within families and those that take root at the heart of society. Ignored, they lead to unimaginable violence, all the way to the cemetery, where not even the dead can rest." -Le Point"[Kramer's] fiction penetrates the terrain of the intimate, places itself in the blind spot of analysis and statistics, and makes silent explosions palpable." -L'Echo"[Kramer's] talent is to lead us into human interiority from concrete situations, through details that are all the more effective because they're delivered without judgment. . . . In this autopsy of a recognizable world, there is pleasure to be taken in the text, in spite of the seriousness of the subject." -Le Devoir"Pascale Kramer depicts a society where misunderstanding and insecurity feed fear, which leads to aggressive mistrust, rejection, and hatred, the fatal poison of which little by little contaminates everyone." -Avant-Critiques Read more...
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