{"product_id":"marshlands-9781681374727","title":"Marshlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eA slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndr  Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel \u003ci\u003eMarshlands\u003c\/i\u003e shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of \u003ci\u003eMarshlands\u003c\/i\u003e is a writer who is writing a book called \u003ci\u003eMarshlands\u003c\/i\u003e, which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse: He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and always talking about, what else, the wonderful book he is writing, \u003ci\u003eMarshlands\u003c\/i\u003e. He tells his friends about the book, and they tell him what they think, which is not exactly flattering, and of course those responses become part of the book in the reader's hand. \u003ci\u003eMarshlands\u003c\/i\u003e is both a poised satire of literary pretension and a superb literary invention, and Damion Searls's new translation of this early masterwork by one of the key figures of twentieth-century literature brings out all the sparkle of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Andre Gide","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38017475379381,"sku":"9781681374727","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_59cfb0c5-263e-4c9b-b683-6bc74b2b458d.jpg?v=1609164946","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/marshlands-9781681374727","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}