Conductor and Other Tales

Name: Conductor and Other Tales
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ISBN: 9781939663016

ISBN-10: 1939663016

ISBN-13: 9781939663016

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jean Ferry, Claude Ballarï¿½, Edward Gauvin

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First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and enthusiastically praised by André Breton), The Conductor and Other Tales is Jean Ferry's only published book of fiction. It is a collection of short prose narratives that offer a blend of pataphysical humor and surreal nightmare: secret societies so secret that one cannot know if one is a member or not, music-hall acts that walk a tightrope from humor to horror, childhood memories of a man never born, and correspondence from countries that are more states of mind than geographical locales. Lying somewhere between Kafka's parables and the prose poems of Henri Michaux, Ferry's tales read like…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Publication date: 11/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English