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Mordechai Schamz


Author: Marc Cholodenko
Translator: Dominic Di Bernardi
French Literature Series
December 1988
121 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
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Paperback, 1-56478-246-8 / 0-916583-31-7
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Book Description

In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by—perhaps even unaware of—his failures, he confidently gets lost in the labyrinth of his investigations.

Reminiscent of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, Calvino's Palomar, and Beckett's Watt, Mordechai Schamz ponders the mysteries of life through clichés and solipsisms, making himself the master of the illogical and the clown of the absurd.

About the Author

Marc Cholodenko is a prolific poet and novelist who has received numerous awards including the Prix Médicis, one of France's highest literary honors. Mordechai Schamz is his first work to be translated into English. Marc_cholodenko

About the Translator

In addition to several of Jacques Roubad’s books, Dominic Di Bernardi has translated works by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Muriel Cerf, Claude Ollier, and Patrick Grainville, among others.

Praise

"Marc Cholodenko's Mordechai Schamz is a beguiling incarnation of human paradoxality. Sure of nothing except uncertainty, he is altogether certain about that; and in this state of dubious conviction he explores himself, the world, and the universe with a compassionate rigor that discovers illumination not only in the stars but in swimming pools. Wherever his shy, lucid gaze settles, it leaves no stone unturned."—Harry Mathews

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