The Dance of a Sham
by Paul Emond
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Pub Date Jul 06 2014 | Archive Date May 20 2014
Columbia University Press | Dalkey Archive Press
Description
The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that Caracala is no more than a sham: a performer. Yet the reader will in turn come to doubt the narrator's own pretensions to honesty, until every source of information has become so unreliable as to make the very notion of a "true story" seem like blatant propaganda.
Advance Praise
“The entire book comprises a single uninterrupted sentence, without paragraphs or chapters. This sentence is like the wild wind in the village chimneys, bearing everyone’s stories from house to house, blending them with malice and treachery, spreading laughter and anger, strife and flames . ..” —La Libre Belgique
“Paul Emond’s characters tirelessly disgorge their stories, which they invent as they tell them, indulging in whimsies of sequence and fantasy that make Emond a successor to Laurence Sterne in Tristram Shandy . . .” —Le SoirAvailable Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781628970326 |
| PRICE | $13.95 (USD) |
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