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This lyrical novel by one of Mexico's leading women writers explores both desire and the desire to tell a love story. In an idle moment between grading assignments, a French teacher sitting in a cafe in a Caribbean seaport town sketches an island on his white napkin. Like Proust's petite madeleine, the island opens up a host of images: " Island: the sum of all improbabilities; intoxicating improbability of fiction. Island: image of desire...All the islands formulated by human beings and all islands appearing on the maps comprise a single imaginary archipelago -- the archipelago of desire." Monsieur N.'s original plan to use a Jules Verne novel about shipwrecked schoolboys as a translation exercise for his pupils becomes an obsession to collect every reference to islands he can find and to meditate on them in a diary of his imaginary travels -- his Islandiary. Parallel to this quest is an archetypal love story that he begins writing in his notebook, printed in a narrow column with islands of quotations surrounding it. Voyaging and the quest for islands becomes a metaphor for the search for paradise, for the island as an imagined place where love achieves perfection. It also becomes a metaphor for writing: "Every text is an island."

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts Film, TV & radio

• Pełny tytuł: Fear of Losing Eurydice
• Autor: Julieta Campos, Leland H. Chambers
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 121
• EAN: 9781564780300
• ISBN: 1564780309
• ID: 04813472
• Wydawca: Dalkey Archive Press
• Waga: 454 g
• Wymiary: 250 × 150 × 15 mm
• Data wydania: 19. May 1994

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