The Delighted States

The Delighted States
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 691
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ISBN-10 : 9781429963862
ISBN-13 : 1429963867
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Book Synopsis The Delighted States by : Adam Thirlwell

Download or read book The Delighted States written by Adam Thirlwell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the expat Gertrude Stein, whose first published story is based on one by Flaubert. This carousel of influence shows how translation and emigration lead to a new and true history of the novel. We devour novels in translation while believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. The Delighted States attempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: the Delighted States. This book is a provocation, a box of tricks, a bedside travel book; it is also a work of startling intelligence and originality from one of our finest young writers.


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