The Sundays of Jean Dézert [electronic resource]
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont2020
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As global capital increasingly mechanizes the means by which human beings are
reduced into mere cogs of the progress-hungry machine, The Sundays of Jean
Dézert, here translated for the first time, deserves to find a wider audience.
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a
few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an
understated, almost humorous tale of urban solitude and alienation that outlines
the mediocrity of bureaucratic existence.
Jean Dézert is an office worker employed by the ministry, who rounds out his
regimented life with snippets of Eastern philosophy, strolls through the city
and consumerist efforts at injecting content into his life by structuring his
Sundays through a rigorous use of advertising flyers that take him from saunas
to vegetarian restaurants to lectures on sexual hygiene.
In his mortal boredom, his modernist engagement with the banality of the
everyday and his almost...
Main title:
The Sundays of Jean Dézert [electronic resource] / Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
Author:
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wakefield Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (96 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781939663641
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
438754
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |