Ravel
A Novel
Published on 19. July 2019
273 pages
978-1-62097-000-3 (ISBN)
Description
"A tiny miracle of a biographical novel" inspired by the life of the brilliant French composer (Booklist).
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
This beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of a musical genius opens in 1927 as Maurice Ravel-dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon-crosses the Atlantic aboard the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. With flashes of sly, quirky humor, this novel captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, and the personal and professional life of the sartorially and socially splendid ravel over the course of a decade. From a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Ravel is a touching literary portrait of a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.
"A beautifully musical little novel." -The New York Times Book Review
"The most distinctive voice of his generation." -The Washington Post
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
This beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of a musical genius opens in 1927 as Maurice Ravel-dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon-crosses the Atlantic aboard the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. With flashes of sly, quirky humor, this novel captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, and the personal and professional life of the sartorially and socially splendid ravel over the course of a decade. From a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Ravel is a touching literary portrait of a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.
"A beautifully musical little novel." -The New York Times Book Review
"The most distinctive voice of his generation." -The Washington Post
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Jean Echenoz is the winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for I'm Gone (The New Press). He is the author of four previous novels in English translation and is the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Medicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. Linda Coverdale's most recent translation for The New Press was Tahar ben Jelloun's This Blinding Absence of Light, winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She won the French-American Foundation's Translation Prize in 1997 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Notes from the Translator
