Un fantôme

by Éric Chevillard

Dans tout autre livre, Crab serait un personnage secondaire, le cadavre déjà froid autour duquel se développerait la passionnante intrigue policière, un homme de troupe, une silhouette au loin, la mule de Sancho Pança, un bruit de pas dans la nuit. On prêterait à peine attention à lui, méprisé par l’auteur et par les autres personnages, le lecteur même serait sans doute tenté de l’employer à tourner les pages. Crab est le héros unique de ce livre. Il se conduira comme tel jusqu’au bout, à la surprise générale.

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1995

About the author

Éric Chevillard is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature.

His work often plays with the codes of narration sometimes to the degree that it is even difficult to understand which story is related in his books, and has consequently been classified as postmodern literature. He has been noted for his associations with Les Éditions de Minuit, a publishing-house largely associated with the leading experimental writers composing in French today.

Reviews

[Ploppy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sort of sequel to the glorious Crab Nebula, once more following the trials and tribulations of the ever-changing "Crab". Slightly more uneven perhaps than the aformentioned, but Chevillard still rises to soaring heights when he wants to.