Monsieur Levert
| Author | Robert Pinget |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le Fiston |
| Translator | Richard Howard & Richard Coe |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Editions de Minuit, Grove Press, John Calder |
| Publication date | 1959 |
Published in English | 1961, 1976 |
| Pages | 125 |
| LC Class | PZ4.P653 Mo |
Le Fiston (Editions de Minuit, 1959; literally, "The Son" or "The Lad" but translated as Monsieur Levert or No Answer) is a novel by Swiss-born French novelist Robert Pinget. That same year, he adapted the novel into the play Lettre Morte (Dead Letter).
Plot summary
Monsieur Levert is a lonely, drunken old man living in the isolation of a Swiss village. He spends his time writing and rewriting a letter to his son Gilbert who ran away from home ten years ago, knowing that he will never complete it and never send it.[1][2][3][4]
Translations
Le Fiston has been translated into English twice: first by Richard Howard for Grove Press in 1961, and then by Richard Coe for John Calder in 1976.
References
- ↑ Robert Pinget, Monsieur Levert, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Grove Press, 1961).
- ↑ Robert M. Henkels, Jr., Robert Pinget: The Novel as Quest (University of Alabama Press, 1979) 70–83.
- ↑ Léonard A. Rosmarin, Robert Pinget (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995) 46–53.
- ↑ David Vichnar, The Avant-Postman: Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce (Karolinum Press, 2023) 83–4.
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