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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard KleinPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.572kg ISBN: 9781478020981ISBN 10: 1478020989 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 13 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews“In The Rock of Arles, Richard Klein revels in the role of an immensely imaginative ghost writer. His fearlessly spirited prose records the views of the rock—a grand personification that mixes semi-omniscience with interrogation and speculation—on an Arles that rivals Rome as the emblematic City of Humanity. The daringly revelatory result is a mock history—at times extravagantly and hilariously fictionalized, yet at moments urgently compelling—of the western world.” -- Philip Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Cornell University “The Rock of Arles is an urban history we didn’t know that we needed and a history we wouldn’t have known at all except through its opinionated and often very funny orographic narrator. We take seriously what the Rock tells us about the past and our possible future not despite but because of its charmingly brazen fictiveness. This delightful book thwarts expectations and its queer history is of the moment, and its form entirely sui generis . . . at least until other rocks decide to follow the Rock’s example.” -- Andrew Parker, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University “In The Rock of Arles, Richard Klein revels in the role of an immensely imaginative ghost writer. His fearlessly spirited prose records the views of the rock—a grand personification that mixes semi-omniscience with interrogation and speculation—on an Arles that rivals Rome as the emblematic City of Humanity. The daringly revelatory result is a mock history—at times extravagantly and hilariously fictionalized, yet at moments urgently compelling—of the western world.” -- Philip Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Cornell University Author InformationRichard Klein is Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Cornell University and author of Cigarettes Are Sublime, also published by Duke University Press, Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis, and Eat Fat. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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