by Thierry Jonquet · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070315925
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«La vigie et autres nouvelles» is a volume of nine short stories by Thierry Jonquet, published by Gallimard in paperback (240 pages, in French).
These are nine stories mixing baroque, anticipation and cruel portraiture with irony: the Administration in its pomp, tomorrow's tour operators, concentration-camp universes, the Lucifer Paramount Fantastic Show and the ethnic cleansing of Buttes-Chaumont. They are black fables where stupidity, with power, creates horror and the dispossessed pay for it.
The volume belongs to the Folio collection (no. 4055) and includes a preface by Hervé Delouche. The work was originally published in 1988 in Nantes.
For readers of French with a taste for short fiction, social satire and dystopia.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
