{"product_id":"the-fool-and-other-moral-tales-9780811227162","title":"The Fool and Other Moral Tales","description":"Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. \u003cem\u003eThe Fool\u003c\/em\u003e \"may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them...a figure observing you can turn the world upside down.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Narrator\u003c\/em\u003e concerns a sort of writer-hero: \"Outcasts who can't even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story.\" \u003cem\u003eLittle Table, Set Yourself!\u003c\/em\u003e--a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous--is the most overtly a fable of these three works, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerre, Anne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of fourteen novels and short story books, \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Serre\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1960. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eLes Gouvernantes\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1992, and praised by Michel Crépu in La Croix for its \"remarkable economy of style.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHutchinson, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMark Hutchinson\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in London in 1957 and lives in Paris. Among his many translations are René Char's \u003cem\u003eHypnos: Notes from the French Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Inventors and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413230784786,"sku":"9780811227162","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e22807d0-2f63-4cc2-8bff-d36b756d9303.jpg?v=1729350044","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fool-and-other-moral-tales-9780811227162","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}