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The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist question him, he asks himself all the questions--and answers them. While ranting on to the court about various topics--his family, the museum where he works as a tour guide, and even the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal--the narrator of The Power of Flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable. In this latest novel from acclaimed French writer Lydie Salvayre, it is up to the reader to sort through his philosophical diatribe to discover why this man turned killer.

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a powerful soliloquy with the immediacy of voice that only a cleverly constructed work of ideas can marshal' -Lee Rourke, The Guardian

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    A Paperback / softback by Lydie Salvayre, Doctor of French Jane Kuntz

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9781564784209, 978-1564784209
      ISBN10: 1564784207

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      Book Synopsis
      The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist question him, he asks himself all the questions--and answers them. While ranting on to the court about various topics--his family, the museum where he works as a tour guide, and even the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal--the narrator of The Power of Flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable. In this latest novel from acclaimed French writer Lydie Salvayre, it is up to the reader to sort through his philosophical diatribe to discover why this man turned killer.

      Trade Review
      a powerful soliloquy with the immediacy of voice that only a cleverly constructed work of ideas can marshal' -Lee Rourke, The Guardian

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