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Jean Echenoz


Born
in Orange, France
December 26, 1947

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Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Gustave Flaubert, Denis Diderot, Honoré de Balzac ...more


Jean Echenoz is a prominent French novelist, many of whose works have been translated into English, among them Chopin’s Move (1989), Big Blondes (1995), and most recently Ravel (2008) and Running (2009).

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Average rating: 3.56 · 16,693 ratings · 2,192 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors
Running
3.80 avg rating — 2,751 ratings — published 2008 — 47 editions
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3.54 avg rating — 2,515 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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Ravel
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3.66 avg rating — 1,612 ratings — published 2006 — 47 editions
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I'm Gone
3.38 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 1999 — 70 editions
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Lightning
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3.65 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions
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Envoyée spéciale
3.35 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2016 — 24 editions
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Piano
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3.49 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions
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Un an
3.49 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions
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3.26 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions
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Big Blondes
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3.32 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1995 — 19 editions
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“About the other one, which for the moment bears the code name Dedale 39, we know only what Ravel is willing to say about it one day to Manuael De Falla: it was supposed to be an airplane in the key of C.”
― Jean Echenoz, Ravel
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“It happend that Bob referred in front of Paul to the young woman met in Chantilly; it happened that Paul spoke to Bob of the one from the cinema that he'd had so much trouble seeing again. It never occurred to them that these portraits might bear a certain resemblance to each other, and the fact is that they bore none at all.”
― Jean Echenoz, Double Jeopardy
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“..he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the base of the fruit; carefully he detached the friable, cardboard-flavoured filaments that run down its surface like meridian lines, in a word peeling his banana the way the anthropoid will forever peel his. He threw one of the filaments into the fly cage..”
― Jean Echenoz, Chopin's Move
tags: banana, behaviour, observation
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