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Author:

Lefebvre, Noémi, 1964- author.

Title:

Poetics of work / Noémi Lefebvre ; translated from the French by Sophie Lewis.

Publisher:

Transit Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

107 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Unemployment--France--Fiction.
Poets--Fiction.
Fathers--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Fathers.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Parent and child.
Poets.
Unemployment.
Lyon (France)--Fiction.
France.
France--Lyon.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Novellas.
Domestic fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Novellas.

Other Authors:

Lewis, Sophie, translator.

Other Titles:

Poetique de l'emploi. English.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as Poetique de l'emploi by Editions Verticales © Editions gallimard, Paris, 2018. First published in English translation by Transit Books in 2021." -- title page verso. "A state of emergency has been declared in France. In Lyon, protesters and police clash in the streets. At the unemployment office, there are few job opportunities for poets going around. So the poet reads accounts of life under the Third Reich and in Nazi language, smokes cannabis, walks through the streets, and eats bananas, drawn by an overbearing father into a hilarious and often cynical exploration of the push to be employed and the pull to write. In this Oulipian experiment written without gender markers for its narrator, Noémi Lefebvre presents us with a comic and irreverent reckoning with the rise of nationalism and the hegemony capitalism has on our language, actions, and identities."--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781945492440
1945492449

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1144110344

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)