Museum Visits 1st Edition Eric Chevillard

Museum Visits 1st Edition Eric Chevillard – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780300274479,9780300254112,0300274475,0300254113

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• ISBN 10:0300274475
• ISBN 13:  9780300274479
• Author: Eric Chevillard

Éric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.

This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip.

Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextu

Table contents:

1. Foreword
2. The Guide
3. Autofiction
4. The Chair
5. The Museum Visit
6. Hegel’s Cap
7. Stones
8. History of the Peloponnesian War
9. The Certificate
10. Pascale Frémondière and Sylvie Masson
11. The Sky
12. The Harpsichord
13. Peter and the Wolf
14. Parliamentary Report
15. An Overwhelming Success
16. Faldoni
17. To Live Hidden in Clear Water
18. The Door
19. The Museum Visit (2)
20. Execration
21. The Cold
22. Moles
23. An Encounter
24. Decalcifies and Disinfects
25. The Rabbit
26. Othon Péconnet
27. Significant Improvements
28. The Pup
29. The Staircase
30. The Museum Visit (3)
31. The Gift
32. The Pan
33. Works
34. Elusive
35. The Soup

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