Contributions

  • Stump, Jordan, 1959- - Contributor
  • Hardin, Eleanor. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

31,500 words, Guess

Page Count

126 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL982327M
  • ISBN-100803214758
  • OCLC Control Number34730233
  • Library of Congress Control Number96019972
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  • LibraryThing3218685

Classifications

  • DDC843/.914
  • LCCPQ2663.H432 N4313 1997

Alternate Titles

  • Nébuleuse du crabe

Description

The Crab Nebula is comprised of fifty-two vivid chapters that provide startling insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab: his nightmarish - and none too solid - physique, his mysterious absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, his never having been born at all. In his portrait of Crab, Eric Chevillard gives us a character who is genuinely strange and curiously like ourselves. A postmodernist novel par excellence, The Crab Nebula parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor.

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