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03(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat, Mitzi Angel
Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2010 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10021-6, ISBN: 0-374-10021-7

"“From the bus stop across the street, it was hard to tell, but suddenly I understood, seeing the passengers in the van that picked her up every morning, that she was slightly retarded.”A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl he sees every day on the way to school. As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams—full of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, ..."






Luminous Chaos
A Novel (The Mysteries of New Venice)
by Jean-Christophe Valtat, Mahendra Singh
Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2013 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-141-6, ISBN: 1-61219-141-X

"Book two in The Mysteries of New Venice, the steampunk adventure series The Guardian called a "magnificent achievement" It's 1907 in the icily beautiful New Venice, and the hero of the city's liberation, Brentford Orsini, has been deposed by his arch-rival -- who immediately assigns Brentford and his friends on a dangerous diplomatic mission to Paris.So, Brentford recruits his old friend and louche counterpart, Gabriel d'Allier, undergr ..."






Aurorarama
A Novel (The Mysteries of New Venice)
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-131-7, ISBN: 1-61219-131-2

"Introducing the Mysteries of New Venice steampunk trilogy with a first volume that “entrances and delights” (NPR)  In the defense of steampunk comes a literary adventure unlike anything you’ve read before. 1908, New Venice: An ominous black airship hovers in the sky, and the city is hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt. The lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city’s most prominent figures. As the net ..."






Aurorarama(1st Edition)
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Melville House
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-13-4, ISBN: 1-935554-13-1

"A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--"the pearl of the Arctic"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, "the time when something is about to explod ..."






McSweeney's Issue 42
(McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
by Dave Eggers, Adam Thirlwell, J.M. Coetzee, Lydia Davis, Clancy Martin, Søren Kierkegaard, John Banville, Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt, Cees Nooteboom, Jean-Christophe Valtat, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sheila Heti, Enrique Vila-Matas, Colm Tóibín, Daniel Kehlmann, Péter Esterházy, Julie Orringer, Laurent Binet, Tom Mccarthy, A.L. Snijders, Yannick Haenel, Heidi Julavits, Peter Stamm, Jeffrey Eugenides, Kenji Miyazawa, David Mitchell, Valeria Luiselli, Jonathan Lethem, Mara Faye Lethem, Nadeem Aslam, John Wray, Franz Kafka, Etgar Keret, Nathan Englander, Alejandro Zambra, Rawi Hage, Tristan Garcia, Joe Dunthorne, Francesco Pacifico, Vendela Vida, Daniil Kharms, Gary Shteyngart, Frédéric Beigbeder, Chloe Hooper, Arnon Grunberg, Ivan Vladislavić, José Luís Peixoto, Danilo Kiš, Aleksandar Hemon, Alan Pauls, Francisco Goldman, Camille De Toledo, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Zadie Smith, Ma Jian, Álvaro Enrigue, László Krasznahorkai, Lawrence Norfolk, Florian Zeller, Wyatt Mason, Rodrigo Fresán, Sarah Manguso, Richard Middleton, Javier Marías, Andrew Sean Greer, Julia Franck, Orly Castel-Bloom, Adam Foulds, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Sã¸Ren Kierkegaard
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2013 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-936365-77-7, ISBN: 1-936365-77-4

"With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of "Kapow!, "Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literaturetwelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English a ..."






03
A Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
96 Pages, Published 2010 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3322-3, ISBN: 1-4299-3322-4

"As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams--full of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, Flowers for Algernon, sexual desire and fear, loneliness, rage for escape, impatience to grow up--reveal an entire adolescence."






Luminous Chaos
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-306-90953-2, ISBN: 1-306-90953-8






Luminous Chaos
A Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
370 Pages, Published 2013 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-142-3, ISBN: 1-61219-142-8

"The mask was different but equally magical: it changed your headinto the facetedeyeofafly, slowingtime allaround you, cutting ... A certain stubborness too —it had taken Thomas three failures to renounce the cut-over feint and low lunge that got him parried ... Instead, Thomas Paynes-Grey was, in a sense,the quintessential New Venetian officer who spends his life waitingforanattack that never comes."






Aurorarama
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Published 2012 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61216-131-0, ISBN: 1-61216-131-6






Aurorarama
a Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-56453-4, ISBN: 1-299-56453-4






Aurorarama
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Published 2010 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-016574-9, ISBN: 0-00-016574-3






Aurorarama
A Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Ebook, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Melville House
ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-88-2, ISBN: 1-935554-88-3

"A Novel Jean-Christophe Valtat. cylinder. The lady's face, that of an almost ... Nix superNox. This was incredible. “Nixon-Knox,” he said. “Isabella Nixon-Knox.” “ Likethe former Councillor?” asked Lilian. “Hiswife. Her maiden name was Isabelle ..."






Exes
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Paperback, 153 Pages, Published 1997 by Gallimard
ISBN-13: 978-2-07-074983-6, ISBN: 2-07-074983-5






03
by Jean-Christophe Valtat, Jean-Ch Valtat
82 Pages, Published 2005 by Gallimard
ISBN-13: 978-2-07-077400-5, ISBN: 2-07-077400-7

"Montpérilleux (03)."






Premières leçons sur L'éducation sentimentale, un roman d'apprentissage
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1997 by Presses Universitaires De France (Puf)
ISBN-13: 978-2-13-047712-9, ISBN: 2-13-047712-7






Premières leçons sur "L'espoir" d'André Malraux
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1996 by Presses Universitaires De France (Puf)
ISBN-13: 978-2-13-048072-3, ISBN: 2-13-048072-1

"Jean-Christophe Valtat prend soin de situer pour le lecteur contemporain le contextehistorique sans lequel le texte littéraire apparaît aujourd'hui ..."






Modernités du Surané ; Raturer le vieillir
by Valéry Hugotte, Bernadette Bertrandias, Jean-Christophe Valtat
292 Pages, Published 2006 by Pu Blaise Pascal
ISBN-13: 978-2-84516-328-7, ISBN: 2-84516-328-2

"Tous les chapitres de cette espèce, sauf les deux 1 Khushwant Singh, Delhi, a novel, Delhi, Penguin Books, 1990 ; Delhi, roman, trad. de l'anglais, Inde, par Marielle Morin, Arles, P. Picquier, 2003. Ont aussi été traduits, et très tard, Train pour le Pakistan et un recueil de nouvelles. 2 premiers du livre, sont uniformément intitulés « Bhagmati », du. Ibid., n.p. (ma traduction). Ibid., p. 3 (ma traduction). 151 D'UNE MODERNITÉ D ..."






Culture et figures de la relativité
Le temps retrouvé, Finnegans Wake
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Hardcover, Published 2004 by Honoré Champion
ISBN-13: 978-2-7453-0920-4, ISBN: 2-7453-0920-X






Les mythes des avant-gardes
by Jean-Christophe Valtat, Véronique Léonard-Roques
Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 2003 by Pu Blaise Pascal
ISBN-13: 978-2-84516-227-3, ISBN: 2-84516-227-8

"Rappelons les récentes publications du CRLMC relevant de cette approche : Marguerite Geoffroy et Alain Montandon (dir.), Marie-Madeleine, figure mythique dans la littérature et les arts, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Biaise Pascal (PUBP), coll. « Littératures », 1999 ; Alain Montandon (dir.), Mythes et représentations de l'hospitalité, PUBP, coll. « Littératures », 1999 ; Dominique Bertrand et Véronique Gély-Ghedira (dir ..."






Ex
Roman
by Jean-Christophe: Valtat
124 Pages, Published 1998 by Deuticke,
ISBN-13: 978-3-216-30404-9, ISBN: 3-216-30404-3



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