A School for Fools (New York Review Books Classics)

A School for Fools (New York Review Books Classics)

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two â€œunreliableâ€ narrators: the young man who is a student at the â€œschool for foolsâ€ and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, â€œan enchanting, tragic, and touching book.â€
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590178461
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-11-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590178461

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