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5.0 out of 5 stars
A small, neglected masterpiece,
By T. P. Uschanov (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Myths & memories (Flamingo) (Paperback)
Myths & Memories is Adair's homage to both Roland Barthes's Mythologies and to Georges Perec's Je me souviens. The first half of the book consists of tens of brief essays (incredibly witty, but always in a manner more caustic than cutesy) on various aspects of British life and culture in the 1980s, written in the way Barthes wrote of France in the 1950s. And the second half comprises hundreds of brief recollections from Adair's life, in the manner of Perec. Adair fully lives up to the challenge of paying tribute to the two French giants by writing of his own experiences in a style adopted from them. That this book is currently out of print is a scandal.
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Myths & memories (Flamingo) by Gilbert Adair (Paperback - 1986)
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