03(1st Edition) A Novel by Jean-ChristopheValtat, Mitzi Angel Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2010 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10021-6, ISBN: 0-374-10021-7
"âFrom 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.âA 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 daydreamsâfull of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, ..."
Luminous Chaos A Novel (The Mysteries of New Venice) by Jean-ChristopheValtat, 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-ChristopheValtat 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-ChristopheValtat 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 ..."
"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-ChristopheValtat 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."
"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 A Novel by Jean-ChristopheValtat 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-ChristopheValtat Paperback, 153 Pages, Published 1997 by Gallimard ISBN-13: 978-2-07-074983-6, ISBN: 2-07-074983-5
"Jean-Christophe Valtat prend soin de situer pour le lecteur contemporain le contextehistorique sans lequel le texte littéraire apparaît aujourd'hui ..."
"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 ..."
"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