My Beautiful Bus
Published on 18. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-56478-799-6 (ISBN)
Description
Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet, this fictional reconstruction focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous vehicle and its occupants.
Reviews / Votes
"At the wheel of his latest book, half-hidden by the driver, Basile, [Jacques Jouet] continues his quest for meaning through words and sounds . . . Points of departure and arrival are less important here than the journey itself, which invokes Perrault, Pascal, and the Abbe Prevost as the miles roll past. A defense of movement, be it physical or imagined, that fabulous movement which gave birth to the book." --Jessica NelsonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-799-6 (9781564787996)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Jacques Jouet
My Beautiful Bus
E-Book
03/2013
1st Edition
Columbia University Press
€12.49
Available for download
Persons
Jacques Jouet was elected to the Oulipo in 1983. He is the author of more than sixty texts in a variety of genres-novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and short fiction-including the novels Mountain R (part of his La Re?publique roman cycle), Savage, and Upstaged, all published by Dalkey Archive. Jacques Jouet was elected to the Oulipo in 1983. He is the author of more than sixty texts in a variety of genres-novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and short fiction-including the novels Mountain R (part of his La Re?publique roman cycle), Savage, and Upstaged, all published by Dalkey Archive.