| Author: | Gabriel Josipovici | ISBN: | 9781784105471 |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd. | Publication: | April 27, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Press Ltd. | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gabriel Josipovici |
| ISBN: | 9781784105471 |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd. |
| Publication: | April 27, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Press Ltd. |
| Language: | English |
Gabriel Josipovici's Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices—as in an opera by Monteverdi—provide the soundtrack, enhanced by a chorus of friends and acquaintances. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris and then to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once confirms and suspends the reader's darkest intuitions.
Gabriel Josipovici's Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices—as in an opera by Monteverdi—provide the soundtrack, enhanced by a chorus of friends and acquaintances. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris and then to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once confirms and suspends the reader's darkest intuitions.
