The Adventures of Telemachus (French Modernist Library) - Hardcover

Aragon, Louis

 
9780803210219: The Adventures of Telemachus (French Modernist Library)

Synopsis

Published in 1922 and modeled on Fenelon's seventeenth-century epic of the same name, Aragon's work parodies its heroic models, didacticism, psychological stability, and descriptive and narrative balance.

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Review

Aragon’s farce is a funhouse of double-think and mirror readings; the wise reader enters with disbelief well suspended and a taste for the game -- New York Times Book Review

Most enjoyable reading, accompanied by an excellent introduction and helpful notes. -- Library Journal

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ISBN 10:  1878972235 ISBN 13:  9781878972231
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