Not a Clue

A Novel

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

In this life-size game of Clue, six psychiatric patients in Paris’s Saint Anne’s Hospital are suspects in the murder of Dr. Black. Though Not a Clue tells the stories of these possible assassins, their lives, and what has brought them to the hospital, the true focus of ChloÉ Delaume’s intense and tumultuous novel is not merely to discover the identity of the murderer. Rather, by cleverly combining humor with the day-to-day effects of life’s unrelenting compromises, Not a Clue is an astute commentary on the current state of literary production and consumption.Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as well as their psychiatrists, and a writer who intervenes by refusing to intervene, Delaume uses the characters, weapons, and rooms of the board game Clue to challenge-sometimes violently, sometimes playfully-the norms of typography, syntax, and narrative conventions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:317 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9781496200891
Översättare:Dawn M. Cornelio, Dawn M Cornelio

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ChloÉ Delaume is an award-winning French novelist. Among the more than twenty texts she has published since 2000, her second novel, Le Cri du sablier, was awarded the Prix DÉcembre in 2001. Dawn M. Cornelio is a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her work has appeared in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Women in French Studies, and elsewhere.

Recensioner i media

Praise for the original French edition ""In response to lovers of ready-to-write fiction who say `to write a good novel, you have to . . . ,’ Chloé Delaume offers `bruised’ syntax, with the barest minimum of punctuation. Like a lace maker, she stitches together words, tears apart adjectives, tugs on adjectives, swells with parenthetical asides, and drenches her prose with equal doses of references to mythology as to pop songs."" - Émilie Grangeray, Le Monde ""With dazzling virtuosity, with its pirouettes, winks, and dizzying mirrored reflections, the final third of the novel in particular brings to mind both baroque esthetics and The Lady from Shanghai’s hall of mirrors. The whole thing is as exhilarating as it is moving."" - Catherine Henry, Benzine magazine

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction by the TranslatorChapter 1 StudioChapter 2 First OfficerChapter 3 Miss ScarletChapter 4 Miss Scarlet in the KitchenChapter 5 Miss Scarlet in the Kitchen with the Monkey WrenchChapter 6 Study (Reload)Chapter 7 Professor PlumChapter 8 Professor Plum in the Ball RoomChapter 9 Professor Plum in the Ball Room with the CandlestickChapter 10 Second OfficerChapter 11 GardensChapter 12 Mrs. WhiteChapter 13 Mrs. White in the LoungeChapter 14 Mrs. White in the Lounge with the Lead PipeChapter 15 HallChapter 16 Third OfficerChapter 17 Dining RoomChapter 18 Fourth OfficerChapter 19 Colonel MustardChapter 20 Colonel Mustard in the Billiard RoomChapter 21 Colonel Mustard in Billiard Room with the RevolverChapter 22 Passageway(s)Chapter 23 Fifth OfficerChapter 24 Mrs. PeacockChapter 25 Mrs. Peacock in the LibraryChapter 26 Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the RopeChapter 27 SwampChapter 28 Sixth OfficerChapter 29 Mr. GreenChapter 30 Mr. Green in the ConservatoryChapter 31 End Game