With the Animals Lannan Selectionsby Noelle Revaz Translated by W. Donald Wilson Publication Date: 05 22 2012 ISBN: 9781564787545 Considered the standard bearer for the great Franco Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, No? lle Revaz may also remind English language readers of Louis Ferdinand C? line: "With the Animals," her shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose linguistic audaciousness is matched only by its brutality,
the author of Penguin News
the first-person narrator is a composer
Called “the new Ibsen
but the reality is well known—the poets and writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak instead of humiliation
” —Josh Billings
"Carlos Fuentes in all his books draws tight a tense conjunction of opposites: the sensuously beautiful and the horrifyingly ugly
has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale Literatur-Dienst Organization)
reissued as 'literature' and redesigned for an entirely new audience
pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel
' one of the more junior civil servant positions
Who’s really telling this story
and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time