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c2011., La Peuplade Call No: QWF FR Fic Lav Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ce roman déluré, sœéchafaudant à lœintérieur de ses propres coulisses, met en scène un personnage qui se démembre, qui se démantibule à mesure quœil tombe dans « le trou du vivant . Ce livre, cœest le trou, cœest la vie. Cœest la seule certitude. Se posséder est impossible : tout semble avoir été programmé, dessiné, décidé dœavance, écrit par un autre que soi. Objets réalistes ou invraisemblables, références littéraires, artistiques et cinématographiques, inondations, débcles, sauvetages, rafistolages, portes, corridors et salles, « du décor, du décor, du décor et encore du décor . Tout converge pour déboucher sur le Bureau universel des copyrights, là où lœon apprend que « chaque mot, chaque matière, chaque objet, chaque lettre, chaque parcelle de vie, chaque idée, chaque personnage a son copyright .
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2020., Book*hug Press Call No: QWF Fic Lav Edition: First English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in translation series.Summary Note: "Sandrine's parents are dead--or they're about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing. The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies: the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain experienced by a young girl and those around her. Voicing anguish and perpetual mourning, The Neptune Room is a poetic novel, at once artful and compassionate, kaleidoscopic in its chronology, and resoundingly sombre. It is about change, great and small, and all the little deaths along the way--both public and private."--
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2017., Adult, Book Thug Call No: QWF Fic Lav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in translation.Summary Note: "It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's fed up with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at the literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the delirium that is Readopolis--a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with some inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic."--From publisher.
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2014., BookThug Call No: QWF Fic Lav Edition: First English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, a bold, strange, and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an unnameable global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things that exist on the earth, including real and fictional characters. Part narrative-poetry, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers with the bowels of the UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world.
