The Written Script - Hardcover

Marsigli, Annalita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879518200 ISBN 13: 9780879518202

Publisher: Overlook Press, 1998

Synopsis

Accept a premise. A man dies. Ten years later he returns to earth to his beloved country home in France only to discover that his wife has married his cousin and that his scholarly writings, which represent the culmination of his life's work, have disappeared under the most extraordinary of circumstances. During his life, the man, Ivain La Baille, professor of Latin literature and a specialist on Caesar, is fascinated by fame. Now in his death, he must plot his escape from a destiny of obscurity outlined for him in the written script of his life. Annalita Marsigli has written a novel that is at once a mystery and a work of thoughtful, almost excruciating frankness about the vanities and pleasures of life and work.

About this title

Synopsis:

Ivain La Baille, a professor of Latin literature and a specialist on Caesar, is fascinated by fame and ten years after he dies he returns to earth to find his wife married to his cousin and his scholarly writings have disappeared.

About the Author:

Annalita Marsigli is currently teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0879518200
• ISBN 13: 9780879518202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320