Coda A Novel - French Voices
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"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence René Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in-thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror-into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality.
Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the "almost-perpetual motion machine" invented by the narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in (perpetual) motion is a package of frozen seafood. This lowly mechanism triggers a series of picaresque and otherworldly events, from the storyteller's meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to his amorous reunion with the younger half-sister of a high school friend, to the elimination of death from the world. It's a funny business, but Belletto's playful and falsely transparent language opens the book to such serious matters as explorations of death, immortality, love, and the innocence of children.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803224414 |
Publisher: | Bison Original |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 2011 |
DEWEY: | 843.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 69 |
Weight: | 108g |
Height: | 206mm |
Width: | 162mm |
Spine width: | 6mm |