Les nuits du papillon
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782264030405 (2264030402)
Publish date: October 20th 1999
Publisher: Editions 10/18
Pages no: 274
Edition language: French
Sigh. How do you rate a book like this? At best, it reminds me of Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions," in which I constantly said to myself (or maybe it was aloud), "Wtf, is this really a book, or is it actually the total corruption of a human soul drawn on the pages of a book?" The drawings by Vo...
This is a novel masquerading as a collection of short stories. Because of this approach, the novel consists of a series of vignettes or fragments. And that is, in part, the modern aspect of it. The prose is fairly conventional, though there are a few intersting stream-of-observation passages that a...