Fiction. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. "What can I tell you about FABLE? It is a love story, or rather the story of a betrayal. The man betrayed doesn't cry out for vengeance, he is prostrated. Then he tries to turn the tragedy to ridicule, in order to overcome it. Monsieur Miaille becomes Monsieur Miette ('crumb'), thus he survives, although greatly diminished. Return to the fold (Fantoine) after a short odyssey, and acceptance."--Robert Pinget, in a letter to his translator, Barbara Wright
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Fiction. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. "What can I tell you about FABLE? It is a love story, or rather the story of a betrayal. The man betrayed doesn't cry out for vengeance, he is prostrated. Then he tries to turn the tragedy to ridicule, in order to overcome it. Monsieur Miaille becomes Monsieur Miette ('crumb'), thus he survives, although greatly diminished. Return to the fold (Fantoine) after a short odyssey, and acceptance."--Robert Pinget, in a letter to his translator, Barbara Wright
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition, "La Librairie des Editions de Minuit (sur Bouffant)" issue, limited to 92 numbered copies, this copy is number 87. 12mo. White printed wrappers. A fine, unopened copy in publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket that is lightly tanned on the spine and with a small tear at lower right front corner. Publisher's numbered slip laid into the book matching the limitation number on verso of title page. Robert Pinget, born in Geneva in 1919, was an avant-garde French novelist, playwright and poet, also associated with the Nouveau Roman movement.
