Anne Serre

The Governesses (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Hutchinson, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018

The sensational US debut of a major French writeran intense, delicious meringue of a novella

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children's education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book's deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.

Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811228084
• Artikelnr.: 59590408

Autorenporträt

The author of fourteen novels and short story books, Anne Serre was born in 1960. Her work has been acclaimed here as hypnotic, enchanting (Publishers Weekly), tight and fabulist (Full Stop), and strange and beguiling (Kirkus).