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$4.29The Story
Book Launch / Signing
25 juin 2024
6 PM - 8 PM
In Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), an unfinished novel published posthumously, Gustave Flaubert depicts one of the most colorful duos in literature. Two frenzied companions, eager to try everything, glean scraps of knowledge from their readings without ever truly understanding anything, ultimately incapable of achieving much at all.
Tormented by introspection, they return, determined this time to “live quietly.” To that end, they embark on a grand clean-up among the debris of knowledge they have gathered and, in an effort to restore their reputation, set themselves a new challenge: to write the ending of the book that has tarnished their image. Do they even suspect that these pages, in which they once again believe themselves to be the heroes, conceal yet another tormentor? This new author, leaning over their figures, in turn manipulates fragments of things read (Joyce, Proust, Cingria, Balzac, Borges…) that his memory — that fuzzy blotter — has managed to retain along the way. Literature, caught in its own trap, turns back upon itself: is style ever truly spontaneous?
David Quéré, born in Paris in 1963, is a French physicist and research director at the CNRS. Having previously published only scientific articles and works, Buvard et Pelucheux, a fascinating piece, is his first literary work.
Illustrations by Jean-Charles Blais
56 pages
12 × 19 cm
ISBN : 978-2-37792-164-5
© Éditions Fata Morgana
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Book Launch / Signing
25 juin 2024
6 PM - 8 PM
In Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), an unfinished novel published posthumously, Gustave Flaubert depicts one of the most colorful duos in literature. Two frenzied companions, eager to try everything, glean scraps of knowledge from their readings without ever truly understanding anything, ultimately incapable of achieving much at all.
Tormented by introspection, they return, determined this time to “live quietly.” To that end, they embark on a grand clean-up among the debris of knowledge they have gathered and, in an effort to restore their reputation, set themselves a new challenge: to write the ending of the book that has tarnished their image. Do they even suspect that these pages, in which they once again believe themselves to be the heroes, conceal yet another tormentor? This new author, leaning over their figures, in turn manipulates fragments of things read (Joyce, Proust, Cingria, Balzac, Borges…) that his memory — that fuzzy blotter — has managed to retain along the way. Literature, caught in its own trap, turns back upon itself: is style ever truly spontaneous?
David Quéré, born in Paris in 1963, is a French physicist and research director at the CNRS. Having previously published only scientific articles and works, Buvard et Pelucheux, a fascinating piece, is his first literary work.
Illustrations by Jean-Charles Blais
56 pages
12 × 19 cm
ISBN : 978-2-37792-164-5
© Éditions Fata Morgana
