Telegram: The Little Girl and the Cigarette: About the Translator

Book Info

FICTION
MAY 2007
13X20 CM
PAPERBACK
200PP £8.99
ISBN: 1846590299

In this section

• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews

About the Author

Benoît Duteurtre is the author of ten novels and winner of the 2001 Prix Medicis. He is also the host of his own TV talk show 'Astonish Me, Benoît.' His work has been translated into thirteen languages. This is his first book to be translated into English.

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Charlotte Mandell

Charlotte Mandell has won the Modern Language Association Prize for translation. She has translated Maurice Blanchot, Jean Genet, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and many others.

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Reviews

'What I admire most about The Little Girl and the Cigarette is the clarity with which this novel unmasks the fundamental stupidity of our modern world; the black humor that transforms horror into a fascinating danse macabre.' Milan Kundera