The Park
From a window, the narrator watches the street, the building opposite, and the words appearing in his notebook. Philippe Sollers lets present time, memory, observation, and imagination blur into one another in an early experimental novel.
Work Information
A gaze out of the window gradually becomes a way of writing.
Watching the street and the room across the way, the narrator keeps adding words to his notebook. Present events and past memories flow together without clear borders, and the novel foregrounds the act of being written. It is a compact but dense book that already shows Sollers's strong sense of method.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Red Dust
- Published
- 1986-06-01
- Pages
- 96 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780873760133
- ISBN-10
- 0873760131
- Price
- 3440 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Fiction. "The narrator of THE PARK watches from his window, his balcony: the avenue, the park, the couple in the apartment across the way. He is attached to the woman. He returns to his room, to his notebook. She is someone he has loved or hopes to love. He is a friend dead in the war. I is sometimes a child, sometimes the author and sometimes He. There is no absolute division between He and I, the observer and the observed. The words of the book are those being written in the notebook. One of the most poetical examples of the 'new novel' in France,present and past time are mingled in a work that is a record of its own writing"--Choice, 1970.
Related Literary Awards
- Prix Médicis Edition 4 (1961) ・Winner