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Another one which I read because of a book group selection, this time in the Forgotten Classics... group. It is a book that is impossible to distance completely from the film it inspired, a wild playful comic adventure set in a Paris netherworld that clearly owes much to Joyce.
The language is full of invention, with hybrid words and all manner of allusions and wordplay - this must have made the translator's job very difficult and although Barbara Wright handled this task admirably and creativel ...more
The language is full of invention, with hybrid words and all manner of allusions and wordplay - this must have made the translator's job very difficult and although Barbara Wright handled this task admirably and creativel ...more
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