Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape: A Caprice

by Michel Butor

Book Overview

Like James Joyce's and Dylan Thomas's similar titles, Butor's novel is autobiographical in nature and explores the way a writer develops. Shortly after World War II a young man travels to a castle in Franconia housing the second largest private library in Germany. There he discovers a multitude of stimuli for his imagination: a castle once the site of celebrations and executions, the old library, mineral collections, rooms decorated in mythological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564780899
• ISBN13: 9781564780898
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher