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OverviewParis in the 1930s: Louis Grandeville has a beautiful wife, a nice home, a loyal servant, and a large circle of well-placed friends. His financial situation doesn't require him to work. Yet Louis is obsessed by the nagging reality that he never has and never will amount to anything. He believes his life is devoid of any affection or goal, filled instead with a thousand trifles intended to relieve its monotony, and populated with human beings he seeks out to avoid being alone but for whom he cares little. Every few days for one winter, Louis writes down the details of his unhappy marriage. Although his wife, Madeleine, is the focal point of his journal, his painstakingly rendered analyses of her behavior tell us more about him than her, and about the harm two people can do to one another. Unsparing and insightful, A Winter's Journal remains one of the most devastating novels ever written on the self-destructive impulse present in all marriages. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emmanuel Bove , Nathalie Favre-GillyPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Edition: Translated ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780810160460ISBN 10: 0810160463 Pages: 219 Publication Date: 30 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews""". . . a self-justifying bourgeois who never understands how he mistreats his long-suffering wife, written in 1931 by the obscure French novelist (1898-1945), whose tautly controlled fiction has been credited as a major influence on Beckett."" --Kirkus Reviews ""All but forgotten today, the cheerless French novels of Bove (nee Bobovnikoff, 1898-1945) were much admired among certain intellectual Modernists in Europe. . . . as Keith Botsford argues in his thorough defense of Bove, the writer's resurrected oeuvre will be read for its singular influence on the work of such writers as Samuel Beckett and Peter Handke."" --Publishers Weekly" . . . a self-justifying bourgeois who never understands how he mistreats his long-suffering wife, written in 1931 by the obscure French novelist (1898-1945), whose tautly controlled fiction has been credited as a major influence on Beckett. --Kirkus Reviews All but forgotten today, the cheerless French novels of Bove (nee Bobovnikoff, 1898-1945) were much admired among certain intellectual Modernists in Europe. . . . as Keith Botsford argues in his thorough defense of Bove, the writer's resurrected oeuvre will be read for its singular influence on the work of such writers as Samuel Beckett and Peter Handke. --Publishers Weekly Author InformationEmmanuel Bove (1898-1945), né Bobovnikoff, was a prolific French writer during the early twentieth century. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois. He is considered a major influence on Samuell Beckett and won the Prix Figuière in 1928. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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