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Demolishing Nisard

3.5/5 ( ratings)

It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is Désiré Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Académie Française, an ardent champion of the glories of seventeenth-century France, an implacable foe of the literature of his own age, a long-forgotten footnote in literary history. An unprepossessing specimen, to be sure, but what harm can he possibly do us now? You’d be surprised. Those dull books you keep reading? Blame Nisard. Trouble with your significant other? Nisard again. A painful pebble in your shoe? Nisard. No, Désiré Nisard must be destroyed; the only question is how. But take comfort: with effervescent imagination and blistering wit, Eric Chevillard, one of contemporary France’s most dazzlingly singular novelists, has come forward to give us a few ideas.

Language: English

Pages: 135

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: August 18, 2011

ISBN: 1564786331

ISBN 13: 9781564786333

Demolishing Nisard

3.5/5 ( ratings)

It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is Désiré Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Académie Française, an ardent champion of the glories of seventeenth-century France, an implacable foe of the literature of his own age, a long-forgotten footnote in literary history. An unprepossessing specimen, to be sure, but what harm can he possibly do us now? You’d be surprised. Those dull books you keep reading? Blame Nisard. Trouble with your significant other? Nisard again. A painful pebble in your shoe? Nisard. No, Désiré Nisard must be destroyed; the only question is how. But take comfort: with effervescent imagination and blistering wit, Eric Chevillard, one of contemporary France’s most dazzlingly singular novelists, has come forward to give us a few ideas.

Language: English

Pages: 135

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: August 18, 2011

ISBN: 1564786331

ISBN 13: 9781564786333

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