{"product_id":"novels-in-three-lines-9781590172308","title":"Novels in Three Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovels in Three Lines\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious F lix F n on. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, F n on carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. \u003ci\u003eNovels in Three Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is his secret chef-d'oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.\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 08\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.10w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2007 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2007 pg. 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/03\/2007 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1165\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"F\u0026#233;lix F\u0026#233;n\u0026#233;on","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660812480668,"sku":"9781590172308","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_719374b6-e755-4891-a30f-f0f0f33699f9.jpg?v=1603897598","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/novels-in-three-lines-9781590172308","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}