The Author and Me France

The Author and Me FranceChevillards surprising, skillful prose and bizarre humor focus on lifes stranger possibilities, allowing readers to see things from a distinctly different perspective. Publishers Weekly Eric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstanding: the belief that a novels narrator must necessarily be a mouthpiece for his or her writers own opinions. Thus, we are introduced to a narrator haunted by a deep loathing for

"A gloomy feel-good novel about the irreparable loneliness of being human

Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride)

audiotapes and movies S left behind

and talk to themselves

he funds a great range of

and philosophies

self-negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction

By Dumitru Tsepeneag

and possibilities taking their places as elements of a fiction in the narrator's mind

constructing a personal account of a future artist growing up under the shadow of the Nazis and in a world capable of containing a person as unique as his father

Henry David Thoreau

Loya Kaplan left Israel seemingly for good