The BURIED Book Club discussion

A total of four English-language reviews (including one review whose entire text is the two word phrase "very romantic") distributed over the 58 distinct works he is credited with on Good Reads. There are also 10 French-language reviews.

Perhaps this 18th-Century author's most noted work among English-language readers is The Sofa, a novel in which a Hindu man is reincarnated, several times, as a sofa, so that he can witness/participate-in/get-aroused-by the love-affairs/sexual-affairs of various couples.

Freely available in English translation here: http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/crebillon_s...

I haven't read it yet, but... One must, mustn't one?

Sounds pretty sweet! And a quick Moore=check shows that he dealt with several novels by Crébillon, vol II, p320ff. (I was hoping to discover another novel he'd missed....)

Oops, I may have misclassified this under "J" for Jolyot, rather than "C" for Crébillon. Since his frequently used pen name was Crébillon Fils (the son), maybe he's a "C"-name.

Zadignose wrote: "Oops, I may have misclassified this under "J" for Jolyot, rather than "C" for Crébillon. Since his frequently used pen name was Crébillon Fils (the son), maybe he's a "C"-name."

Yep. Changes made. But meanwhile I noticed that there's a bit of librarian work which could be done. He's probably got half a dozen author profiles.

Ah, yeah, messy. I just combined a couple of the books that had been credited exclusively to his pen name... and maybe his 58 distinct works will turn out to be half as many if the right texts can be combined... work...

Zadignose wrote: "maybe his 58 distinct works"

The gr db wouldn't know a distinct work it if it hit it in its db.