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Paul Fournel (Author), David Bellos, Jean Jullien

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Pushkin Press
28 January 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Pushkin Collection

'If you leave them to roam free books can hardly ever be wrong.'

Meet Robert Dubois. Cheek resting on a pile of manuscripts, the ageing and perhaps too comfortable publisher of Robert Dubois Books is alone one evening in his office. In walks a pretty intern with an e-reader. For a man who thought he had seen it all, this is a revolution. Can text really live without paper? As Dubois gets to know his new machine and carries on with his publisher's life, author lunches and bookshops visits, the reader tucked under his arm tells him of the new paperless world to which he might not belong. Don't be fooled, Dubois hasn't given up. Late at night, he secretly plots new forms of literature with a group of interns, with whom he shares his immoderate and timeless love of books and reading.

By: Paul Fournel (Author)
Designed by: Jean Jullien
Translated by: David Bellos
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 45g
ISBN: 9781782270263
ISBN 10: 1782270264
Series: Pushkin Collection
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 28 January 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Fournel was born in 1947. He worked as a publisher with Ramsay & Seghers, and chaired the Societe des gens de lettres. He was head of the Alliance Francaise in San Francisco, and a cultural attache in Cairo and London. He now writes full time and cycles during the rest of the day. As a third full-time job, he is the Provisionally Definitive Secretary and President of the literary collective known as Oulipo, whose members have included George Perec and Italo Calvino, among many others. He is also the author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, and poetry. David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He has won many awards for his translations of Georges Perec, Ismail Kadare and others, including the Man Booker Translator Award, and received the Prix Goncourt de la biographie for George Perec, A Life in Words.

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Delightfully satirical... [the] ultimate celebration of printed books Le Monde All about the intense and carnal pleasures of reading Telerama Poetic, satirical and delicate: here is a novel in urgent need of reading L'Express A delight Le Figaro