In Schopenhauer's Sled
Publisher
:
Albin Michel
Parution date
:
2005
EAN
:
9782226158390
Description
Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer is a novel about a professor of philosophy undergoing psychoanalysis, finally broken by the discovery that philosophy cannot help one live one's life. Alternating voices form chapters of monologues. The characters speak about one another, but never to one another in a sharp kaleidoscopic novel of contemporary life and relationships.
Author
Yasmina Reza : Reza , born in Paris in 1959, is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her first play, Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial) won her the 1987 "Molière Award for Best Author" along with a " Johnson Foundation Award" and a "SACD New Talent Award". Other plays include Art, and The Unexpected Man. Other works include Hammerklavier ( George Braziller, 2000) and Desolation (Knopf, 2002; Vintage 2003), published in English to great acclaim. Publishers' Weekly said the following: "The winter of this Parisian's delightful discontent alternates brilliantly between dry humor and wry flashes of heartbreaking wisdom. Crafted with loving care and remarkable attention to voice...". Her novel Adam Haberberg will be published by Knopf a year from now.
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