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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Offill, Jenny (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Dept. of speculation [Texte imprimé] / Jenny Offill
Édition : First edition
Publication : New York : Alfred A.Knopf, [2014]
Description matérielle : 179 pages ; 20 cm
Note(s) : "Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination
on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal
shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as
simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept.
of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in
the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of
common catastrophes--a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the
wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought
experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on
the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction
of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life
and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers
with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful
love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed.
Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation can be read in a single sitting,
but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer
novel. "
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Department of speculation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780385350815 (hardback). - ISBN 0385350813 (hardback). - ISBN 9780345806871
(paperback). - ISBN 0345806875 (paperback). - ISBN 9780385351027 (erroné) (e-book).
- ISBN 038535102X (e-book). - ISBN 9780385351027 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43759755h
Notice n° :
FRBNF43759755
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