My Big Apartment

Author:   Christian Oster ,  Jordan Stump ,  Jordan Stump
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9780803235670


Pages:   157
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Format:   Hardback
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My Big Apartment


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Winner of France's prestigious Prix Medicis and a bestseller in France, Oster's My Big Apartment is a humorous and ironic look at the serious subject of growing up. Always accessible, but never facile, Christian Oster is a writer searching for love and equilibrium in the world. Although hardly the most daring theme, Oster-through deadpan humor, fastidious and thoughtful writing, and a genuine melancholy-makes it seem new. Gavarine, the gentle but immature protagonist of My Big Apartment, is ambitious only in the search for love. When he loses the keys to his apartment he loses and a whole lot more than access to his apartment. Yet, through a true comedy of errors Gavarine ends up finding, in ways he has least expected, everything he is looking for. Though in some ways a wry romantic comedy, the language in My Big Apartment is unfailingly rich in implications and there is always more going in this story than meets the eye. At once unapologetically sentimental and overtly intellectual, Oster's writing belongs to that particular strain of French literature in which seriousness and jest, or passion and the cerebral, fruitfully coexist without effort or contradiction. Christian Oster lives in France and is the author of eight novels in addition to a number of pseudonymous detective novels and children's books. Jordan Stump is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Naming and Unnaming (Nebraska 1998) and translator of numerous books including Eric Chevillard's On the Ceiling also published by the University of Nebraska Press. Also available Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau Jordan Stump 0-8032-4268-9 HB GBP30.50 On the Ceiling Eric Chevillard: Translated by Jordan Stump 0-8032-6396-1 PB GBP11.50

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Author:   Christian Oster ,  Jordan Stump ,  Jordan Stump
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780803235670


ISBN 10:   0803235674
Pages:   157
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, 26 March 2004 (Nothing quotable)


The comically tortured thought processes of an amiable and very confused Parisian slacker are memorably explored in this 1999 winner of France's Prix Medicis: the seventh novel by a popular author who also writes pseudonymous detective stories and children's books. Oster's engaging narrator Gavarine loses his job, a briefcase containing his apartment keys, then his girlfriend; nor can he find the note explaining her absence he's sure she must have left . . . on and on the confusions, second thoughts, qualifications, and distractions proliferate as Gavarine travels about the countryside, encounters one fascinating and maddening woman after another, and eventually finds employment, love, and detente with his own manic, inchoate sensibility. A wry farcical romance and coming-of-age tale like no other: an altogether charming entertainment. (Kirkus Reviews)


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Christian Oster lives in France and is the author of eight novels in addition to a number of pseudonymous detective novels and children's books. Jordan Stump is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Naming and Unnaming (Nebraska 1998) and translator of numerous books including Eric Chevillard's On the Ceiling also published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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