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Asylum

André Alexis

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Description:Asylum, the long-awaited new novel by André Alexis, is a Russian doll of a book, thick with layers and twists. For starters, there’s its dedication to Harry Mathews, a member of the merry band of mathematical and literary pranksters known as Oulipo. Then there’s Mark Ford, its very unreliable narrator. From the remove of a self-imposed exile at a Tuscan monastery, Ford relates the ups and mostly downs of a loosely connected group of intellectuals, politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa in the 1980s.As for the plot of this largely interior, contemplative tale: Everything and nothing much at all happens over the course of almost 500 pages. That is, except for a sexual scandal involving a squeaky-clean veteran politician, a pork-barrel plan to build a “civilized” mega-prison out of imported marble and an extramarital affair that has violent consequences. Throw in long passages written in French (sans translation) and name-check Thomas Aquinas and G.W.F. Hegel, and you have Alexis’s peculiar – and compelling – brand of eggheaded playfulness. Even the title is a riddle: Can a madhouse also be a place of sanctuary?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Asylum. To get started finding Asylum, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Asylum, the long-awaited new novel by André Alexis, is a Russian doll of a book, thick with layers and twists. For starters, there’s its dedication to Harry Mathews, a member of the merry band of mathematical and literary pranksters known as Oulipo. Then there’s Mark Ford, its very unreliable narrator. From the remove of a self-imposed exile at a Tuscan monastery, Ford relates the ups and mostly downs of a loosely connected group of intellectuals, politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa in the 1980s.As for the plot of this largely interior, contemplative tale: Everything and nothing much at all happens over the course of almost 500 pages. That is, except for a sexual scandal involving a squeaky-clean veteran politician, a pork-barrel plan to build a “civilized” mega-prison out of imported marble and an extramarital affair that has violent consequences. Throw in long passages written in French (sans translation) and name-check Thomas Aquinas and G.W.F. Hegel, and you have Alexis’s peculiar – and compelling – brand of eggheaded playfulness. Even the title is a riddle: Can a madhouse also be a place of sanctuary?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Asylum. To get started finding Asylum, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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