Speak / Stop

Speak / Stop - Paperback

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Speak / Stop - Paperback

Speak / Stop - Paperback

by Noémi Lefebvre
$18.95
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Book Overview

An irreverent semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.


--We have read Proust but we're not sure


--Who has really read Proust


--Besides a few Proustians


--We are no Proustians


--Despite not being anti-Proustian...


Speak / Stop comprises two interrelated texts: a chorus of unidentified voices followed by a work of literary criticism that only Noémi Lefebvre could write--a semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.


Abstracted, irreverent, and full of biting satire, Lefebvre picks apart hypocrisies in our lives and the language of our lives, skewering our literary pieties before delving headfirst into the paradox of self-criticism. Working against conventional notions of genre and form, Speak / Stop is "a madhouse of earthworm sentences" interrogating concerns of class and taste, ease, and inclusion/exclusion that are the foundations of Lefebvre's work.
ISBN9781945492990
Author Noémi Lefebvre
PublisherTransit Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages120
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Noémi Lefebvre

Noémi Lefebvre was born in 1964 and lives in Lyon. She studied music for over 10 years as a child and later obtained her Ph.D. on the subject of music education and national identity in Germany and France. She became a political scientist at CERAT de Grenoble II Institute. She is the author of three novels, all of which have garnered intense critical success in France.Sophie Lewis is a literary editor and translator from French and Portuguese into English. She has translated Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, and João Gilberto Noll, among others.

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