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Title: Dump This Book While You Still Can!: Jette Ce Livre Avant Qu'Il Soit Trop Tard (Stages (Series), V. 18.) by Marcel Benabou, Steven Rendall, Warren Motte ISBN: 0-8032-6186-1 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Some fun, some pathos
Comment: The comedy of Bénabou's book about reading, Dump This Book While You Still Can!_, is more arcane and the regret more conventionally the loss of a nubile by very elusive female (Sophie) than his (briefer) black comedy about not writing, _Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books_ (also published by Nebraska) The quotations from a wide array of western literature are less amusingly apt and less numerous than those in _Why_.
The attempts to find hidden meaning in the manuscript goes on too long. Still there is some entertainment of Nabokovian/Borgian kind. (Canetti's _Auto da Fé_ popped into my mind often in reading both books, though _Auto da Fé_ has a sustained narrative rather than the many startings over of the Bénabou metafictions on writing and reading have.)
The typeface is unusually and uncomfortably small in both of these books, which are not very long and have fairly large margins. Both have useful introductions explaining who Bénabou is--a task he has taken up more directly in a sort of autobiography also available in English from the University of Nebraska Press.
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Title: Vanishing Point : A Novel by David Markson ISBN: 1593760108 Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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