The Fool and Other Moral Tales

The Fool and Other Moral Tales
Mark Hutchinson, Anne Serre
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Paperback
h185 x 114mm - 228pg
1 Jun 2021 UK
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9781838014155
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From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre - author of the celebrated Governesses - come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales. ' To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is arguably the smartest trick of all. ' ' The Fool' may have stepped out of a tarot pack - to walk a mountain trail or worm his way into a writer' s mind. ' The Narrator' proposes his mirror image, a storyteller in sheep' s clothing, who has a bone to pick with language. In ' The Wishing Table' , the orgiastic antics of an incestuous family are recounted by one of three daughters. A dream logic rules each of these unpredictable, sensual and surreal stories: romps no doubt, yet deeply moral, and entirely unforgettable ones.
' I love the way Anne Serre' s mind works, and her slyly seductive approach to narrative. ' -Adam Mars-Jones; ' With its psychological reality infused with fabulism, Serre' s fiction seems to have invented its own genre of literature. The Fool and Other Moral Tales is an impeccable collection. ' -Ankita Chakraborty, New York Times; ' From the author of the brilliant novel The Governesses, comes another beguiling piece of art, this time a collection of three novellas exploring desire and morality. ' -Three Percent; ' Drawing on fairy tales and psychoanalysis, pornography and poststructuralism, Serre constructs stunning and searing stories. Dreamy and deeply sexual. ' -Publishers Weekly; ' Three wild novellas - each of these stories plumbs the depths of desire, morality, and our willingness to go on an unpredictable ride. ' -Katie Yee, LitHub; ' Serre' s collection speaks bravely, poignantly and perversely to the hazards of alienation - from one' s self, from those around you - while also illuminating the blessings and curses, the gifts and sacrifices, of being called to dwell in the gauzy world of stories. ' -John Biscello, Riot Material; Praise for The Governesses; ' Genuinely original - and, often, very quietly so. Seriously weird and seriously excellent. . . call it the anglerfish of literature. ' -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times; ' Anne Serre' s style is perfectly controlled. Colorful, by turns elegant and violent, it provokes that enchantment borne out of an unbridled imagination. ' -Marie Claire; ' Hypnotic, enchanting. ' -Publishers Weekly; ' Serre' s language is tight and fabulist, a slim and sensuous fairy tale that reads like something born from an orgy between Charles Perrault, Shirley Jackson, and Angela Carter. ' -Full Stop
Anne Serre is the author of fourteen books, as well as numerous short stories and essays, and the recipient of a 2008 Cino del Duca Foundation award. Her first novel Les Gouvernantes was praised in La Croix for ' its remarkable economy of style and in Liberation as ' a delightful Sabbath' . From its publication in 1992, till 2000, she worked under a pseudonym as book editor of a leading magazine for women. Serre won the 2020 Goncourt short story prize for her collection Au coeur d' un ete tout en or.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838014155
Published: 1 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Les Fugitives
Publisher: Les Fugitives
Format: Paperback
Height: 185mm
Width: 114mm
Spine: 12mm
Pages: 228

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