5.95/mo for the first 4 months For a limited-time, save over 60 on your first 4 months of Audible Premium Plus, and enjoy bestselling audiobooks, new releases, Originals, podcasts, and more. Sphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time. Sphinx - by Anne Garréta (Paperback) 12. Garrta est l’auteur de Sphinx (Grasset, 1986), La dcomposition (Grasset, 1999) et Pas un jour (Grasset, 2002, prix Medicis). By Anne Garrta Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan Recipient of the French Embassys Hemingway Grant for Translation A landmark literary event: the. A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I," and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language. Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize One of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015 One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015 One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garreta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.
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