Henri Duchemin And His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove

Henri Duchemin And His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove

An NYRB Classics Original

Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, My Friends, Bove enjoyed a busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him. During his lifetime, his novels and stories were admired by Rilke, the surrealists, Camus, and Beckett, who said of him that "more than anyone else he has an instinct for the essential detail."

Henry Duchemin and His Shadows is the ideal introduction to Bove's world, with its cast of stubborn isolatoes who call to mind Melville's Bartleby, Walser's "little men," and Rhys's lost women. Henri Duchemin, the protagonist of the collection's first story, "Night Crime," is ambivalent, afraid of appearing ridiculous, desperate for money- in other words, the perfect prey. Criminals, beautiful women, and profiteers threaten the sad young men of Bove's stories, but worse yet are the interior voices and paranoia that propel them to their fates. The poet of the flophouse and the dive, the park bench and the pigeon's crumb, Bove is also a deeply empathetic writer for whom no defeat is so great as to silence desire.

Emmanuel Bove (1898-1945) was a French journalist and novelist. He had been publishing popular novels under the pseudonym Jean Vallois for several years when Colette helped him publish My Friends under his own name. He continued publishing successful novels until World War II, at which time he was forced into exile in Algeria. He died of heart failure soon after returning to Paris from exile.

Janet Louth has translated several books by Emmanuel Bove, including My Friends, Armand, and A Man Who Knows. She lives in Manchester, England.

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ISBN 13	9781590178324
ISBN 10	1590178327
Titel	Henri Duchemin And His Shadows
Autor	Emmanuel Bove
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-08-11
Seitenanzahl	160
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