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My Phantom Husband

di Marie Darrieussecq

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The premise is simple, but the story quickly becomes surreal: the narrator's husband leaves to buy a loaf of bread and never returns. Searching for him day and night, forced to explain his absence to friends and family, the unnamed narrator withdraws into a mysterious universe ruled more by image than language. In the wake of her husband's disappearance, the world becomes a strangely immaterial place, shapeless, devoid of sentiment. Once-familiar territories become terrifying: the supermarket, the beach, the bedroom. Even the wedding album has changed: her husband's face now appears altered in every shot. An innovative, daring book on the physicality of absence, My Phantom Husband explores familiar reactions to sudden loss and the disruption of daily routine. Weaving an intricate web of exquisite metaphors and mesmerizing visions, Marie Darrieussecq once again astounds readers with her exceptional imagination and stylistic genius.… (altro)

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Despite the rave review from the Guardian, I did not enjoy this book, but then I dislike streams of consciousnous masquerading as novels. Nothing actually happens in this book. Nothing. If you have read the back cover you know what happens in the book. It is as stated by the Times "an extended prose poem". If you like that sort of thing then you might find this book original, politically astute and a remarkable achievement as others have done. I just found it boring. (

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bhowell | Sep 17, 2011 |

What I found really hard was not that I myself had transformed into into a creature from the depths of the deep (one of those translucent beasts, who under bathysphere lamps, appear reddish, soft and slightly disgusting) but that, as I'd had confirmed with my own eyes, when it came to the rest of the clan, the only feeling aroused by my husband's disappearance was embarrassment (the same goes for deep sea molluscs), From now on they'd be giving me a wide berth, steering prudently around me with their flippers, pretending to be listening to the silence of the deep.

The story starts when a man goes out to buy some bread one evening and doesn't come back. His wife is left in a kind of limbo, seeing his phantom in the street and in their flat, and taking refuge in fantasy. I was going to use a quote about ripping a teddy bear open and seeing its entrails to illustrate her fantasising, but changed my mind, as it would put you all off your food!

I thought to start with that it was set in France, with the bread shops open in the evening, and the Metro. But then it turned out that it was a capital city on the coast with a sealion colony, and lots of reference to islands, so it doesn't sound like Europe after all. (

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Darrieussecq, Marie	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	confermato
Stevenson, Helen	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Suni, Annikki	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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Elle était en train de promener autour d’elle son regard à la recherche de quelque moyen de s’enfuir, et elle se demandait si elle pourrait s’éloigner sans que l’on s’en aperçût, lorsqu’elle remarqua, dans les airs, une étrange apparition; celle-ci tout d’abord l’intrigua fort, mais, après l’avoir observée attentivement pendant une minute ou deux, elle comprit qu’il s’agissait d’un sourire, et elle se dit : « C’est le Chat du Cheshire : maintenant je vais avoir quelqu’un avec qui causer. »

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Mon mari a disparu. Il est rentré du travail, il a posé sa serviette contre le mur, il m’a demandé si j’avais acheté du pain. Il devait être aux alentours de sept heures et demie.
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The premise is simple, but the story quickly becomes surreal: the narrator's husband leaves to buy a loaf of bread and never returns. Searching for him day and night, forced to explain his absence to friends and family, the unnamed narrator withdraws into a mysterious universe ruled more by image than language. In the wake of her husband's disappearance, the world becomes a strangely immaterial place, shapeless, devoid of sentiment. Once-familiar territories become terrifying: the supermarket, the beach, the bedroom. Even the wedding album has changed: her husband's face now appears altered in every shot. An innovative, daring book on the physicality of absence, My Phantom Husband explores familiar reactions to sudden loss and the disruption of daily routine. Weaving an intricate web of exquisite metaphors and mesmerizing visions, Marie Darrieussecq once again astounds readers with her exceptional imagination and stylistic genius.

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