Paper Tiger - Softcover

Olivier Rolin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803289995 ISBN 13: 9780803289994

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2007

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Review:

"Paper Tiger is a brilliant novel that explores the complex intertwining of idealism and politics and violence, a critical theme in the early twenty-first century. But the book does far more. It also illuminates the universal longing by each human soul for self and connection and a way of living in a complex world. Olivier Rolin is a towering figure in French literature, and I am deeply grateful for his introduction into the English language by William Cloonan's vigorous and smart and elegant translation. The publication of Paper Tiger in the United States is a literary event of major importance, for Rolin is a consummate artist who will speak profoundly to the American heart."-Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

" "Paper Tiger" is a brilliant novel that explores the complex intertwining of idealism and politics and violence, a critical theme in the early twenty-first century. But the book does far more. It also illuminates the universal longing by each human soul for self and connection and a way of living in a complex world. Olivier Rolin is a towering figure in French literature, and I am deeply grateful for his introduction into the English language by William Cloonan' s vigorous and smart and elegant translation. The publication of "Paper Tiger" in the United States is a literary event of major importance, for Rolin is a consummate artist who will speak profoundly to the American heart." -- Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"

""Paper Tiger" is a brilliant novel that explores the complex intertwining of idealism and politics and violence, a critical theme in the early twenty-first century. But the book does far more. It also illuminates the universal longing by each human soul for self and connection and a way of living in a complex world. Olivier Rolin is a towering figure in French literature, and I am deeply grateful for his introduction into the English language by William Cloonan's vigorous and smart and elegant translation. The publication of "Paper Tiger" in the United States is a literary event of major importance, for Rolin is a consummate artist who will speak profoundly to the American heart."--Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"--Robert Olen Butler

Paper Tiger is a brilliant novel that explores the complex intertwining of idealism and politics and violence, a critical theme in the early twenty-first century. But the book does far more. It also illuminates the universal longing by each human soul for self and connection and a way of living in a complex world. Olivier Rolin is a towering figure in French literature, and I am deeply grateful for his introduction into the English language by William Cloonan s vigorous and smart and elegant translation. The publication of Paper Tiger in the United States is a literary event of major importance, for Rolin is a consummate artist who will speak profoundly to the American heart. Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain--Robert Olen Butler"

Martin, an aging French radical from the 60s, wonders where it all went and why. One night in 2000, when this rushing stream of a book is set, he broods out loud while driving around (and around and around) Paris with Marie, the 24-year-old daughter of his best friend from the Cause. . . . [T]here are also treats that make the car ride worth taking, some serious . . . and others delightfully comic. . . .When the journey to the end of the night is over, the impression left behind (at once comforting and disturbing) is that history will make a paper tiger of every high hope and feared foe alike, no matter how seemingly imperishable. Alison McCulloch, New York Times Book Review--Alison McCulloch "New York Times Book Review ""

"Paper Tiger is a brilliant novel that explores the complex intertwining of idealism and politics and violence, a critical theme in the early twenty-first century. But the book does far more. It also illuminates the universal longing by each human soul for self and connection and a way of living in a complex world. Olivier Rolin is a towering figure in French literature, and I am deeply grateful for his introduction into the English language by William Cloonan's vigorous and smart and elegant translation. The publication of Paper Tiger in the United States is a literary event of major importance, for Rolin is a consummate artist who will speak profoundly to the American heart."--Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain--Robert Olen Butler

"Martin, an aging French radical from the 60s, wonders where it all went and why. One night in 2000, when this rushing stream of a book is set, he broods out loud while driving around (and around and around) Paris with Marie, the 24-year-old daughter of his best friend from 'the Cause.' . . . [T]here are also treats that make the car ride worth taking, some serious . . . and others delightfully comic. . . . When the journey to the end of the night is over, the impression left behind (at once comforting and disturbing) is that history will make a paper tiger of every high hope and feared foe alike, no matter how seemingly imperishable."-- Alison McCulloch, New York Times Book Review--Alison McCulloch "New York Times Book Review "

About the Author:

Olivier Rolin is one of France's most distinguished novelists. His Port-Sudan won the Prix Femina, and Tigre en Papier was short-listed for the 2003 Goncourt Prize. This is the first translation of his work into English. William Cloonan is the Richard Chapple Professor of Modern Languages at Florida State University. He is the author of The Writing of War: French and German Fiction and World War II.

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0803289995
• ISBN 13: 9780803289994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210