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Cruel tales from the thirteenth floor
- Title
- Cruel tales from the thirteenth floor / Luc Lang ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
- Author
- Lang, Luc, 1956-
- Publication
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Nicholson-Smith, Donald
- Description
- ix, 100 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In sixteen ferocious short stories, French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang's curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor, show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully tragic. Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance. "--
- "A collection of sixteen devilish stories, "Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor" captures the everyday cruelty and dark humor of existence"--
- Series Statement
- French voices
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Note
- "French voices."
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2776
- ISBN
- 9780803237476 (paperback : alk. paper)
- 0803237472 (paperback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014049426
- 40025044750
- OCLC
- 894747543
- Author
- Lang, Luc, 1956- author.
- Title
- Cruel tales from the thirteenth floor / Luc Lang ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
- Publisher
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- French voices
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025044750
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2776