Description
Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as well as their psychiatrists, and a writer who intervenes by refusing to intervene, Delaume uses the characters, weapons, and rooms of the board game Clue to challenge-sometimes violently, sometimes playfully-the norms of typography, syntax, and narrative conventions.
About the Author
Chloe Delaume is an award-winning French novelist. Among the more than twenty texts she has published since 2000, her second novel, Le Cri du sablier, was awarded the Prix Decembre in 2001. Dawn M. Cornelio is a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her work has appeared in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Women in French Studies, and elsewhere.
Reviews
Praise for the original French edition
"Like a lace maker, [Delaume] stitches together words, tears apart adjectives, tugs on adjectives, swells with parenthetical asides, and drenches her prose with equal doses of references to mythology as to pop songs."-Emilie Grangeray, Le Monde
"With dazzling virtuosity, with its pirouettes, winks, and dizzying mirrored reflections, the final third of the novel in particular brings to mind both baroque esthetics and The Lady from Shanghai's hall of mirrors. The whole thing is as exhilarating as it is moving."-Catherine Henry, Benzine Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9781496200891
Author Chloe Delaume
Format Paperback
Page Count 246
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press