Demolishing Nisard
By: Eric Chevillard ; translated by Jordan Stump
Contributors: Stump, Jordan, 1959-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781564786333
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Démolir Nisard
Description: It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is Desire Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Academie Francaise, and ardent champion of the glories of seventeenth-century France, an implacable foe of the literature of his own age, a long-forgotten footnote in literary history. What harm can he do us now? You'd be surprised. Those dull books you keep reading? Blame Nisard. Trouble with your significant other? Nisard again. A painful pebble in your shoe? Nisard. No, Desire Nisard must be destroyed; the only question is how.
Notes: Originally published in French as Démolir Nisard.