District
by Tony Duvert
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District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable show more sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 848.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PQ2664 .U86 .D513 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1961-2000
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