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Item Details
| Title:
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THE DUKE'S MAN
A NOVEL |
| By: |
David Slavitt |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£18.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810127008 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810127005 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 2011 |
| Pages: |
172 |
| Synopsis: |
Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great chain of literary respectability, yet as David Slavitt points out in his humorous yet loving send-up of the genre, riches might be found in the most unlikely sources. The DukeAEs Man is, in a way, old and newua condensation and commentary and a literary mash-up. The eponymous character is Louis de Clermont, Comte de Bussy dAEAmboise, a gentleman of the court of King Henri III of France, and the hero of DumasAE three-volume historical novel La Dame de Monsoreau (1846). DumasAE novel serves here as inspiration, pre-text, and pretext for a commentary that veers off into numerous historical and biographical digressions, musings on narrative and the novel, and parody. Focusing on one aspect of DumasAE noveluthe doomed love story of Bussy dAEAmboise and Diana de MonsoreauuSlavitt excerpts key passages, which are extended and undercut by the narratorAEs comments. The result is a radically abridged book with its own life and verve. The first of the quoted scenes, in which the names of BussyAEs assailants are replaced with those of French cheeses, sets the irreverent tone for all that follows.The book pokes fun at DumasAE exclamatory style and flamboyant archaisms (omorbleu!o opardieu!o), the implausibility of the swordfights, the unnecessary contortions of the political plot, the conventional passivity of the heroine, and the coyness of his love scenes. Residing somewhere between NabokovAEs Pale Fire and Quirk BooksAE mash-ups (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, etc.), The DukeAEs ManAEs blend of quotation, commentary, and fiction raises searching questions about realism and truth. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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