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The Fool and Other Moral Tales

The Fool and Other Moral Tales

Serre, Anne
Hutchinson, Mark

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ISBN10: 0811227162
ISBN13: 9780811227162
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 24 2019
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.40 Depth: 7.20
Language: English
Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them...a figure observing you can turn the world upside down. The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: Outcasts who can't even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story. Little Table, Set Yourself!--a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous--is the most overtly a fable of these three works, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.

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