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Gerard de Nerval The Salt Smugglers (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Salt Smugglers
- Publication Name
- The Salt Smugglers
- Title
- The Salt Smugglers
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0980033063
- EAN
- 9780980033069
- ISBN
- 9780980033069
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 28/08/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 8.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Political, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 8.1in
- Number of Pages
- 147 Pages
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First published as a sprawling feuilleton in the newspaper Le National in 1850, The Salt Smugglers was political and topical. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this protean, digressive satire deals less with contraband salt and more with questions of subversion, transgression, censorship and marginality. Never-before-translated into English and never published as a free-standing volume, The Salt Smugglers is an unearthed pre-postmodern gem.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
0980033063
ISBN-13
9780980033069
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70961518
Product Key Features
Book Title
Salt Smugglers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Political, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
147 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
8.1in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2260.G36f3813 2009
Reviews
If ever a writer . . . sought to define himself painstakingly to himself, to grasp and bring light to the murky shadings, the deepest laws and most elusive impressions of the human soul, it was Gérard de Nerval. --Marcel Proust Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateful to Richard Sieburth and Archi- pelago Books for rescuing from oblivion this gem of factual fiction, revealing a Nerval poised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and the vitriolic Voltaire. The Salt Smugglers now has pride of place in my ideal library. --Alberto Manguel The octrois of reason exact a cruel tithe compounded of the flesh and blood of mankind. The arbitrary authority of fate casts our lives into Bastilles far more terrible than those stormed by revolutions. This is why we so love and admire all those salt smugglers of the spirit, all those bootleggers of contraband ideas who thumb their noses at the black-shirted guards of narrow logic. --Michel Leiris, "An unjustly forgotten proto-modernist chef d'oeuvre by a French nineteenth-century master now splendidly Englished for the first time by one of our finest translators ... what more could anyone ask for?" --Ian Monk "What an amiably digressive tale, a la Laurence Sterne! The Salt Smugglers leads off with an irresistible hunt for a rare book and continues full of high adventure, often involving collisions with an absurdly wrong-headed judicial system. Yet the narrator's tongue-in-cheek sincerity and his jibes at the government are startlingly modern. Richard Sieburth has rescued a lovely book from obscurity or perhaps even virtual oblivion." --Lydia Davis "There are individuals who are illuminated by the absolute and who flood the universe of relations with light. ... Gerard de Nerval points us to the bold trajectories of these human meteors while at the same time opening our ears to the voices of legends and folksongs. ... Love, the spirit of revolution, adventure, a certain form of mysticism--he takes all this and makes it converge toward a single point and an ultimate liberation, which he discovered first in madness and then in suicide." --Michel Leiris "Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateful to Richard Sieburth and Archipelago Books for rescuing from oblivion this gem of factual fiction, revealing a Nerval poised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and the vitriolic Voltaire. The Salt Smugglers now has pride of place in my ideal library." -- Alberto Manguel "If ever a writer . . . sought to define himself painstakingly to himself, to grasp and bring light to the murky shadings, the deepest laws and most elusive impressions of the human soul, it was Gerard de Nerval." --Marcel Proust, "An unjustly forgotten proto-modernist chef d'oeuvre by a French nineteenth-century master now splendidly Englished for the first time by one of our finest translators ... what more could anyone ask for?" --Ian Monk "What an amiably digressive tale, à la Laurence Sterne! The Salt Smugglers leads off with an irresistible hunt for a rare book and continues full of high adventure, often involving collisions with an absurdly wrong-headed judicial system. Yet the narrator's tongue-in-cheek sincerity and his jibes at the government are startlingly modern. Richard Sieburth has rescued a lovely book from obscurity or perhaps even virtual oblivion." --Lydia Davis "There are individuals who are illuminated by the absolute and who flood the universe of relations with light. ... Gérard de Nerval points us to the bold trajectories of these human meteors while at the same time opening our ears to the voices of legends and folksongs. ... Love, the spirit of revolution, adventure, a certain form of mysticism--he takes all this and makes it converge toward a single point and an ultimate liberation, which he discovered first in madness and then in suicide." --Michel Leiris "Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateful to Richard Sieburth and Archipelago Books for rescuing from oblivion this gem of factual fiction, revealing a Nerval poised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and the vitriolic Voltaire. The Salt Smugglers now has pride of place in my ideal library." -- Alberto Manguel "If ever a writer . . . sought to define himself painstakingly to himself, to grasp and bring light to the murky shadings, the deepest laws and most elusive impressions of the human soul, it was Gérard de Nerval." --Marcel Proust, If ever a writer . . . sought to define himself painstakingly to himself, to grasp and bring light to the murky shadings, the deepest laws and most elusive impressions of the human soul, it was Gérard de Nerval. -Marcel Proust Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateful to Richard Sieburth and Archi- pelago Books for rescuing from oblivion this gem of factual fiction, revealing a Nerval poised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and the vitriolic Voltaire. The Salt Smugglers now has pride of place in my ideal library. -Alberto Manguel The octrois of reason exact a cruel tithe compounded of the flesh and blood of mankind. The arbitrary authority of fate casts our lives into Bastilles far more terrible than those stormed by revolutions. This is why we so love and admire all those salt smugglers of the spirit, all those bootleggers of contraband ideas who thumb their noses at the black-shirted guards of narrow logic. -Michel Leiris
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-014413
Dewey Decimal
843.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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