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The Inquisitory (Paperback)
| Author: Robert/ Watson Pinget | Translator: Donald Watson Donald Watson |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-10: 1564783278
ISBN-13: 9781564783271
Sku: 33855710
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 1.25T
Pages:
399
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Praise
New York Review of Books
"M. Pinget brings out all my insular prejudice against Continentals who have never heard of common sense and, on taking up a theory or chasing a technique, ride the damned thing so hard that it has dropped dead before it is halfway round the course....Faced with this sort of novel, one is obliged to ask:...Does it show us aspects of life that would be concealed if the writing were more orthodox?....M. Pinget's novel is only a deliberate struggle--maintained with incredible stamina--to ride a one-wheeled bicycle for 399 miles. It is hardly surprising, then, that the total effect is immensely involved, generally unreadable, and appallingly boring." - Nigel Dennis 3/23/67 (unknown)
"Pinget's very avant-garde novel of the absurd incorporates the full French novelistic tradition. Like Proust, he has a cure who dabbles in the etymology of place names; like Balzac, he avidly traces the fortunates of little provincial shops through all their vicissitudes of gossip. The number of anecdotes, of miniature novels, caught in his nets of description cannot be counted; presumably some are expanded elsewhere in Pinget's oeuvre....It is hard to imagine very many Americans, except for reviewers and students of the 'art of the novel,' reading [this book]." - John Updike 11/4/67 Saturday Review
"...'The Inquisitory' is, in fact, a disturbing, bewildering book. But its very confusion dazzles rather than dazes; it creates a compulsive effect on the reader." - Thomas Bishop 2/11/67
"M. Pinget brings out all my insular prejudice against Continentals who have never heard of common sense and, on taking up a theory or chasing a technique, ride the damned thing so hard that it has dropped dead before it is halfway round the course....Faced with this sort of novel, one is obliged to ask:...Does it show us aspects of life that would be concealed if the writing were more orthodox?....M. Pinget's novel is only a deliberate struggle--maintained with incredible stamina--to ride a one-wheeled bicycle for 399 miles. It is hardly surprising, then, that the total effect is immensely involved, generally unreadable, and appallingly boring." - Nigel Dennis 3/23/67 (unknown)
"Pinget's very avant-garde novel of the absurd incorporates the full French novelistic tradition. Like Proust, he has a cure who dabbles in the etymology of place names; like Balzac, he avidly traces the fortunates of little provincial shops through all their vicissitudes of gossip. The number of anecdotes, of miniature novels, caught in his nets of description cannot be counted; presumably some are expanded elsewhere in Pinget's oeuvre....It is hard to imagine very many Americans, except for reviewers and students of the 'art of the novel,' reading [this book]." - John Updike 11/4/67 Saturday Review
"...'The Inquisitory' is, in fact, a disturbing, bewildering book. But its very confusion dazzles rather than dazes; it creates a compulsive effect on the reader." - Thomas Bishop 2/11/67
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