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02950aam a2200397 i 4500 001 4B0296CEAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210505010019 008 200409t20212021nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020016150 020 $a 1681374722 020 $a 9781681374727 035 $a (OCoLC)1144099123 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d AZD $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d PAU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ2613 I2 P313 2021 100 1 $a Gide, AndreÌ, $d 1869-1951 $e author. 240 10 $a Paludes. $l English 245 10 $a Marshlands / $c by AndreÌ Gide ; translated from the French by Damion Searls ; preface by Dubravka Ugresic. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b New York Review of Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xx, 116 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 500 $a Translated into English from French. 520 $a "AndreÌ Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing "Marshlands," which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse: He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and always talking about, what else, the wonderful book he is writing-Marshlands. He tells his friends about the book, and they tell him what they think, which is not exactly flattering, and of course those responses become part of the book in the reader's hand. Marshlands is both a poised satire of literary pretension and a superb literary invention, and Damion Searls's new translation of this early masterwork by one of the key figures of twentieth-century literature brings out all the sparkle of the original"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $g 4. $t From Prometheus Misbound (1899): The Story of Tityrus. $t Hubert -- $t Angela -- $t The Banquet -- $t Hubert, or The Duck Hunt -- $t Angela, or The Little Trip -- $t Sunday -- $t Envoi -- $t Variant -- $t Table of the Most Remarkable Sentences in Marshlands -- $t Appendix -- $g 1. $t Two Poems (1890) -- $g 2. $t Three Scenes Appearing Only in the First and Second Editions -- $g 3. $t Afterword to the New Edition of Marshlands -- $g 4. $t From Prometheus Misbound (1899): The Story of Tityrus. 650 0 $a Classics $v Juvenile fiction. 700 1 $a Searls, Damion, $e translator. 700 1 $a UgresÌicÌ, Dubravka, $e writer of preface. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gide, AndreÌ, 1869-1951. $t Marshlands. $d New York : New York Review Books, [2020] $z 9781681374734 $w (DLC) 2020016151 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012037.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012037.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4B0296CEAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search