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Pierre senges is the author of fifteen books and over sixty plays for radio. If you were to ask a french reader whos your literatures best kept secret. The eighteenthcentury german physicist georg christoph lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects. Senges revels in the idea of a great novel marked in no small part by its heft, a necessary part of the proof of its greatness and this too is meant to be a great novel, if not on the grandest scale. The eighteenthcentury german physicist georg christoph. Moby dick in hollywoodorson welles by pierre senges. The major refutation by pierre senges, translated by jacob siefring, is published by contra mundum press. This edition of the major refutation is followed by a scholarly afterword discussing the conditions of the texts genesis. Pierre senges s fragments of lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together lichtenbergs disparate notes into a. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fragments of lichtenberg french literature.
He is the recipient of prizes for ruinesderome 2002 and veuves au. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Senges radio plays have been produced by france culture and france inter. Fragments of lichtenberg is a satire of literary scholarship of the past two centuries or so and sharp and funny as such but thats also just one of the angles. He is the recipient of prizes for ruinesderome 2002 and veuves au maquillage 2000, as well as for his radio work. Buy fragments of lichtenberg by pierre senges, gregory flanders from waterstones today. Pierre senges audio books, best sellers, author bio.
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Jan 27, 2017 pierre senges s fragments of lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together lichtenbergs disparate notes into a coherent philosophical or artistic statement. Pierre senges is the author of fourteen books and over seventy plays for radio. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Pierre senges is the author of fourteen books and over sixty plays for radio. Pierre senges s fragments of lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together lichtenbergs disparate notes into a coherent philosophical or artistic statement. They frequently combine erudition and invention or play with the relation between the true and untrue. Dec 07, 2009 if you were to ask a french reader whos your literatures best kept secret. What emerges instead from their efforts are a wide variety of conflicting and competing lichtenbergs the poet. In book after book, senges has embraced his belatedness visavis the. Apr 03, 2008 pierre senges has a creative curiosity raised to the nth degree lichtenberg was a mathematician, and mathematical ideas pervade the fragments so he posits a oncemassive work by lichtenberg of which the aphorisms are only the debris from a destructive blaze of the full document, deliberately. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the biography submission guide.
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Browse pierre senges s bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. Pierre senges is the author of 14 books and over 70 plays for radio. His long novel, fragments of lichtenberg, is forthcoming in english from dalkey archive press in 2017. All our physical stores and our online store are temporarily closed. The unbuttoned, unkempt, unlikely fiction of pierre siniac is a slap in the face of the traditional crime novel, and the collaborators is his best and most hilarious book. Each book is an adventure that allows senges to conquer all books, like a child, or a doe running through a forest. Metaphysical books save now on titles like fragments of lichtenberg french literature, the great fire of london.
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