Autumn in Peking

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Autumn in Peking

Autumn in Peking

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Published: 12 April, 2012
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Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the reconstruction of postwar Paris, Vian’s novel also conjures a darker version of Alice in Wonderland.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780966234640
ISBN10 0966234642
Number Of Pages 284
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Tam Tam Books
Format paperback
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Beauty and ugliness define the two poles of Vian’s outlook. As a literary writer, the man who moved in the same social orbit as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Vian wrote absurdist fantasias filled with eccentrics and romantic dreamers. His novels can get dark, but they are full of puns, slapstick, and comedy. Love and weird beauty figure in Autumn in Peking, where a number of people, obsessive types, build a train station and railway tracks in a desert no one visits. * Literary Hub *

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