Readopolis
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Product Details
Author:
Bertrand Laverdure, Oana Avasilichioaei
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
264
Publisher:
Book*hug Press (April 13, 2017)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781771662987
ISBN-10:
1771662980
Dimensions:
5.25" x 8" x 0.7"
Case Pack:
40
File:
Eloquence-IPG_08292026_P10549431_onix30-20260829.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$20.00
As low as:
$17.20
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Weight:
11.52oz
Audience:
General/trade
Series:
Literature in Translation Series
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Book*hug Press
Overview
From award-winning writer Bertrand Laverdure comes Readopolis, a novel translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.
It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis--a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic.
In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution.
Praise for Readopolis
"Readopolis is a stylistically ebullient interrogation of the effect that literature has on the readers who consume it." &mdashSteven W. Beattie, Quill and Quire
"With Readopolis, Laverdure has created a beautiful, humorous jumble of a book." --Dean Garlick, Montreal Review of Books
"Readopolis is at times a panorama of Montreal literary culture, at times a condemnation of the precarity and banality of cultural economies, at times a rich homage to friends and to hope, as well as to the wonders of the act of reading itself." --Erin Moure, Tarpaulin Sky
"In Readopolis, Oana Avasilichioaei has risen to and matched the stylistic acrobatics of Bertrand Laverdure's Lecto�me. The many voices of Quebecois writing sing through in this intelligent translation&mdasha vertiginous ode to the pure, if rarely rewarded, pursuit of literature." --Jury Citation for the Governor General's Literary Awards, Translation
It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis--a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic.
In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution.
Praise for Readopolis
"Readopolis is a stylistically ebullient interrogation of the effect that literature has on the readers who consume it." &mdashSteven W. Beattie, Quill and Quire
"With Readopolis, Laverdure has created a beautiful, humorous jumble of a book." --Dean Garlick, Montreal Review of Books
"Readopolis is at times a panorama of Montreal literary culture, at times a condemnation of the precarity and banality of cultural economies, at times a rich homage to friends and to hope, as well as to the wonders of the act of reading itself." --Erin Moure, Tarpaulin Sky
"In Readopolis, Oana Avasilichioaei has risen to and matched the stylistic acrobatics of Bertrand Laverdure's Lecto�me. The many voices of Quebecois writing sing through in this intelligent translation&mdasha vertiginous ode to the pure, if rarely rewarded, pursuit of literature." --Jury Citation for the Governor General's Literary Awards, Translation
