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PORTUGAL: Gonçalo Manuel Tavares
Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet
and is as inventive and energetic now as when it was first published
“The aim of this book is not idle amusement for the sophisticated
is a precision-cut gem of literary minimalism
Hoppla! 1 2 3 Microfiction PORTUGAL: Gonçalo Manuel TavaresBy Grard Gavarry Translated by Jane Kuntz Publication Date: 06 09 2009 ISBN: 9781564785367 The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard Gavarry is a writer who knows how literary inventiveness can shed new light on a serious subject, and Hoppla! tells its story three times, in three separate sections,