
Upstaged
Jacques Jouet(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 28. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
87 pages
978-1-56478-574-9 (ISBN)
Description
Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer's dressing-room door, just as he's smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage... and, without thinking, he says, "Come in," still in character. He quickly finds himself bound, gagged, and stripped by a man who appears to be his mirror image: costumed in the same wig, makeup, and clothes. Nicolas is powerless to prevent his usurper from going out and playing his role--with increasingly ridiculous consequences. Is this "upstaging" the act of a depraved amateur? Sabotage by a rival? A piece of guerrilla theater? A political statement? Whatever the cause, Nicolas and his fellow actors soon find their play--and their lives--making less and less sense, as the parts they play come under assault by this irrational intruder.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-574-9 (9781564785749)
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Jacques Jouet
Upstaged
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Columbia University Press
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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. Leland de la Durantaye is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of"Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov"and "Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction".