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The Crab Nebula Book

Fans of post-modern fiction will love Éric Chevillard's new novel, The Crab Nebula, where paradox piles on top of non sequiturs and time runs sideways until all trace of coherence is lost in the flood of words and images. Readers who enjoy linguistic acrobatics and are comfortable amid chaos will find The Crab Nebula an entertaining read. However, those who prefer more traditional fare should keep looking.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The Crab Nebula (La Nébuleuse du crabe) is comprised of fifty-two vivid chapters that provide startling insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab: his nightmarish—and none too solid—physique, his mysterious absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, his never having been born at all. In his portrait of Crab, Ã?ric Chevillard gives us a character who is genuinely strange and curiously like ourselves.
     
    A postmodernist novel par excellence, The Crab Nebula parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and brilliantly combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor. What distinguishes it most of all is the startling originality of Chevillardâ??s voice and vision. There is whimsy and despair in this novel, pathos and laughter, satire and warm affection.
     
    The Crab Nebula is the fifth novel—and the first to be translated into English—by the brilliant young French author Ã?ric Chevillard. His sympathetic yet outrageous portrait of Crab calls to mind works by Melville, Valéry, and Kafka, while never being less than utterly unique.

  • 0803263708
  • 9780803263703
  • Eric Chevillard
  • 1 June 1997
  • University of Nebraska Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
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