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A Case of Curiosities
Allen Kurzweil
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Éditeur:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
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Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2001
2001
ISBN-13:
9780547350868
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<DIV><B>This tale of an ambitious inventor in France as the Revolution looms is “brilliantly playful . . . full of lore and lewdness” (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> “A portrait of a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, delivered along with a gallimaufry of odd and intriguing facts and a rich, lusty picture of society in that time and place.” —<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR />  <BR /> In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. Over the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, then apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker.<BR />  <BR /> But it is Claude’s greatest device—a talking mechanical head—that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.<BR />  <BR /> “Like a joint effort by Henry Fielding and John Barth” (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>), this “captivating novel” (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>) marked the debut of one of the finest literary artists of our time.<BR />  <BR /> “<I>A Case of Curiosities</I> . . . really is brilliant. Also witty, learned, ingenious, sly, and bawdy.” —<I>Entertainment Weekly</I><BR />  <BR /> “What John Fowles did for the 19th century with <I>The French Lieutenant’s Woman</I> and Umberto Eco did for the 14th with <I>The Name of the Rose</I> . . . Kurzweil now does for the late 18th century.” —<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></DIV>
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