The Origin of ManDalkey Archive Press, 2012 - 265 pages With a name like Jacques Boucher de Cr'vecoeur de Perthes, it ought to be easy to become a hero. Yet, how to go about it? A reallife nineteenth-century paleontologist and explorer, excavated here by Christine Montalbetti to serve as her protagonist, Jacques has tried everything: fighting off pirates, writing poetry, becoming a dandy, a man of culture... all without ever quite feeling he fits the bill. At last, when Jacques decides he'll make his name by discovering evidence of early man, it seems we, his, will be treated to a novel about mankind itself--unless, of course, our putative hero gets shanghaied into a love story along the way. "The Origin of Man" is the story of one man--and all humanity--waging a war against oblivion without ever quite winning the day. It's also a comedy about being immersed in heroic and fantastical events without one's ever noticing. |
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The Origin of Man: Dedicated to the Presidents and Vice-presidents of the ... Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
The Origin of Man: Dedicated to the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the ... K C M,F Juvenalis Annaniensis Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |