The Author and Me

by Éric Chevillard

Book Overview

?ric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstanding: the belief that a novel's narrator must necessarily be a mouthpiece for his or her writer's own opinions. Thus, we are introduced to a narrator haunted by a deep loathing for cauliflower gratin (and by a no less passionate fondness for trout almondine), but his monologue has been helpfully and hilariously annotated in order to clarify all the many ways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628970758
• ISBN13: 9781628970753
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher