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Vacated Landscape

Vacated Landscape

Lahougue, Jean
Gormley, Ke

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1939663970
ISBN13: 9781939663979
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A truly mind-bending novel from an author prized for his experimental fusions of nouveau roman techniques and Oulipian constraints

An editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript by someone calling himself Desiderio--a manuscript that bears an eerie resemblance to his own life and to a book he was planning to write on a Renaissance painter of the same name. He decides to use his vacation time to visit the place from which it was sent--the quaint, historical seaside town of V.--and believes he has identified the author: one Jean Morelle, himself a tourist, who disappeared the very day the manuscript was mailed. The narrator decides to play amateur detective and track down Morelle, unaware that as he becomes more deeply enmeshed in the mystery, the streets of V. will bend around him like a Möbius strip to form a loop that seems to offer no escape.

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