Author: (France) Pierre Michon (Author); Tian Jiawei (Translator)
Publication Date: October 2024
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
ISBN: 978-7-208-19107-5
Pierre Michon is a contemporary French writer, whose work Onze (Eleven) once won the Académie Française's Novel Prize. In The King's Body, Michon writes about Samuel Beckett, Gustave Flaubert, Ibn Mangli, William Faulkner, and himself, and puts forward the view that "writers transcend earthly time and belong to the same body, that is, the body of literature." The author integrates literary criticism, subjective narration, historical document research, and iconography to create a unique writing styl