{"product_id":"the-valiant-little-tailor-a-novel-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters-9780300253191","title":"The Valiant Little Tailor A Novel The Margellos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe classic Grimms’ fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you’ve never read it before\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chevillard can be exhilarating, as he breathes powerful life into words, creating a sense of poetic animism”—Muriel Zagha, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A creative take on storytelling, suggesting the potential in even the most familiar tale, with Chevillard riffing comfortably across subject-matters and stories old and new.”—M. A. Orthofer, \u003ci\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This novel, superbly translated by Jordan Stump, is vintage Chevillard. A fairy tale for our time, it is engagingly playful, telling a story we thought we knew, prompting us to think about how stories are told.”—Warren Motte, author of \u003ci\u003eMirror Gazing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here’s Chevillard at his cockeyed keenest, bedeviling the Brothers Grimm with a giddy vengeance. Jordan Stump once again proves a superb chaperone on this deliciously macabre, deliriously digressive, almost irresponsibly imaginative field trip into the bowels of narrative.”—Daniel Levin Becker, author of \u003ci\u003eMany Subtle Channels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As Chevillard reinvents, subverts, and digresses from the Brothers Grimm tale, his wit and wordplay leap into life in Jordan Stump’s breathtaking translation. A book not to be missed by anyone new to Chevillard’s antics, or by his longtime, faithful readers.”—Alyson Waters, translator of Chevillard’s \u003ci\u003ePrehistoric Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Chevillard takes a Grimms’ fairy tale and runs rings around it, torquing and twisting it into new half-shapes. Amusing, maddening, funny, and absurd, this is a new sort of metafiction, like Robert Coover on acid.”—Brian Evenson, author of \u003ci\u003eSong for the Unraveling of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Éric Chevillard’s sly, clever, imaginative tales reimagine how to tell a story.”—Madeleine Schwartz, journalist and advisory editor for \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Éric Chevillard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Chevillard [is] one of the bright spots in recent French literature.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A major talent, a worthy descendant in the Beckett-Bernhard line.”—Darren Reidy, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Éric Chevillard is one of the few great experimental French writers still writing today.”—Erik Martiny, \u003ci\u003eLondon Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Beloved for his playful and sharply intelligent fiction, Éric Chevillard is a voice worthy of a global readership.”—\u003ci\u003eMusic and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883958186327,"sku":"9780300253191","price":16.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-valiant-little-tailor-a-novel-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters-9780300253191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}