L'Art de l'effacement
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782715233157 (2715233159)
Publish date: April 12th 2013
Publisher: Mercure de France
Pages no: 185
Edition language: French
The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of three very different yet very similar novellas.The first, The Museum of Final Journeys, narrates a story of a Civil Service Officer who started his career from a post in a remote district of the country. It was perhaps not the most glamorous post that o...
3 novellas--linked I suppose by the recurrence of small but substantive moments of moral decision, a common question of how (and why, and whether) art matters in one's life, and Desai's precisely-detailed prose and characterization. One of these knocked me down: as Prema, a middle-aged mouse of an ...
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