Changing Track (Calder): Michel Butor - Softcover

Michel Butor

 
9780714545707: Changing Track (Calder): Michel Butor
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714545708 ISBN 13: 9780714545707
Publisher: Calder Publications, 2017

Synopsis

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Léon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has made about his future. These musings - together with his impressions of the unfolding scenery, conjectures about his fellow passengers and some recurring leitmotifs - form the basis of a riveting narrative that provides a psychological case study of an everyman and subtly illustrates the onset of the protagonist s doubts and fears. Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor s groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read work of the nouveau roman genre. Famously written in the second person in order to immerse the reader more fully into the psyche of the main character, Changing Track pulls off the rare feat of being at once experimental and accessible, disquieting and engrossing.

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About the Author

Michel Butor (1926-2016) was a French writer often associated with the nouveau roman movement and is best remembred for his Changing Track (La Modification). After writing his fourth and final novel in 1960, he devoted the rest of his writing career to essays and poetry.

From the Back Cover

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Léon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has made about his future. These musings – together with his impressions of the unfolding scenery, conjectures about his fellow passengers and some recurring leitmotifs – form the basis of a riveting narrative that provides a psychological case study of an everyman and subtly illustrates the onset of the protagonist’s doubts and fears.

Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor’s groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read work of the nouveau roman genre. Famously written in the second person in order to immerse the reader more fully into the psyche of the main character, Changing Track pulls off the rare feat of being at once experimental and accessible, disquieting and engrossing.

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Publisher
Calder Publications
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0714545708
ISBN 13 
9780714545707
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224