Description
Eric Chevillard's trademark is inventing characters who have little choice but to dream up the most hopelessly outlandish and breathtakingly brilliant schemes if they are to survive the rigors of their existence. He is fascinated by the imperious need we all feel to make life bearable and by the lengths to which we are willing to go in that pursuit. The characters in On the Ceiling are prepared to go rather further than most of us. Chevillard, one of the most inventive young authors on the French literary scene, is the author of eight novels.
A stylish and entertaining novel about a young man who wears a chair upside down upon his head
About the Author
Jordan Stump is associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau and the translator of four novels by Marie Redonnet-Hotel Splendid, Forever Valley, Rose Mellie Rose, and Nevermore-and of Eric Chevillard's The Crab Nebula and Patrick Modiano's Out of the Dark (all available from the University of Nebraska Press).
Book Information
ISBN 9780803263963
Author Eric Chevillard
Format Paperback
Page Count 135
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 170g