Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Japanese Literature Series Bereft at the end

Bereft at the end

and the grandeur of the rustic Swiss scene is well evoked" - Paddy Kehoe

He is the author of The Sot-Weed Factor

that's "so laughably mundane" it’s really no story at all)

it is widely considered one of Sorrentino's finest novels

Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Japanese Literature Series Bereft at the endWith Flann OBrien widely acknowledged as a subversive genius of early postmodernism, Flore Coulouma places the question of language at the center of his literary identity. Connecting OBriens philosophy of language to the convoluted structure of his writing, Coulouma demonstrates how bilingualism and an ambiguous relation to language inspired OBriens satirical fiction, while developing narrative oppositions such as orality and literacy, truth and