Publication
Melville House (2008), Edition: First Thus, Paperback, 150 pages
Physical description
150 p.; 6.98 inches
ISBN
1933633573 / 9781933633572
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In a jet-black satire based on a real-life scandal, the leading writer in a school of literary criticism that says authors are meaningless-dead-is discovered to have been a Nazi. Gilbert Adair is the author of Love and Death on Long Island and the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers,
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LibraryThing member giovannigf
Hopefully the title doesn't scare away the anti-post-modernist faction, because this novella is a terrific satire of Paul De Man's life and his theories. The Nabokov comparisons that have been used to describe this book are well deserved - the irony and wit of the narrator are simply perfect.