Mobile (French Literature)
by Michel Butor
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Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michael Butor's Mobile is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America. The text is composed from a wide range of materials, including city names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings, newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair, Native American writings, and the history of the Freedomland theme park. Butor weaves bits and pieces from these diverse sources into a collage resembling an abstract painting (the show more book is dedicated to Jackson Pollock) or a patchwork quilt that by turns is both humorous and quite disturbing. This travelogue captures--in both a textual and visual way--the energy and contradictions of American life and history. show lessTags
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Michel Butor was born near Lille, France on September 14, 1926. He studied philosophy and literature before becoming a teacher and working mainly abroad in Egypt, England, Greece, and the United States. He built a multi-faceted body of work that included books, essays, and poems. His books include A Change of Heart, Mobile, Degrees, Portrait of show more the Artist as a Young Ape: A Caprice, and Frontiers. La Modification (Second Thoughts) won the Renaudot Prize. His literary and art criticism are contained in Repertoire I to IV and Illustrations I to IV respectively. He died on August 24, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Collection L'imaginaire (268)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1962
- First words
- pitch dark in
CORDOVA, ALABAMA, the Deep South - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)ALBANY, Albany County.
The night.
Wind River Peak at night.
BUFFALO.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 848.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ2603 .U73 .M63 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
- BISAC
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- 63
- Popularity
- 493,022
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- (3.93)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 2
