by Steven Millhauser · Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869304376
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«La galerie des jeux» is a collection of short stories by Steven Millhauser, published by Rivages in paperback (185 pages, in French).
Collection of seven stories that moves between the real and the fantastic around childhood, imagination and artistic vocation. A clockmaker's son creates animated figures, a fabulous kingdom houses unusual paintings and other parables show the transformation of the everyday by art and time.
Work translated from English by Françoise Cartano; originally published as «In the Penny Arcade» (1985). The author won the Médicis Prize for foreign works in 1975.
For readers of short fiction and magical realism, with an interest in contemporary American literature.
Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.
