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A PHILOSOPHICAL THRILLER AND HISTORY OF THE INTERNETFollowing the advice of his long-suffering housekeeper, genial octogenerian Mr Mee abandons dusty books and turns to the Internet in search of Rosier's Encyclopaedia, a lost book proposing the philosophy of an alternative universe. Instead he finds a photograph of a naked girl reading "Ferrand and Minard: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Search For Lost Time". Meanwhile, in the spring of 1761, the two French copyists Ferrand and Minard find themselves in possesion of Rosier's Encyclopaedia and pursued by the authorities who want to claim its secrets for themselves. The interwoven stories which follow concern Rousseau's madness, a dying scholar's love, and Mr Mee's belated discovery of sex, drugs and Jimmy Shand.Crumey, whose writing has been widely compared to Borges and Calvino, has produced a philosophical thriller of breathtaking originality. The seamless collage of history, fantasy and intellectual caprice results in a witty narrative which ultimately provides a history of the Internet.
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This book is fabulous stuff: erudite but not patronising, elegantly and simply written, jumping ambitiously across centuries but with a good dash of down-to-earth lust for entertainment. More than once, Crumey make his reader pause, rest the book in his lap, and acknowledg that life really is quite extraordinary. He deserves to be better known. --The Times
Mr Mee is not only an intellectual treat but a moving meditation on aspiration and desire. --Hilary Mantel in The New York Times
Like a trompe l'oeil painting, or a puzzle that invites us to draw at least two contradictory, yet equally plausible conclusions, Mr Mee disturbs as it diverts, charms as it challenges. --The Washington Times
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'In short - it's fabulous. This is a novel which deserves to break its author through, if ever I read one... [Mr Mee] had me helpless with laughter.' Jonathan Coe
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0330376802
- ISBN 13 9780330376808
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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