by Eric Chevillard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707320094
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«Oreille rouge» is the novel by Éric Chevillard published by Les Éditions de Minuit in the Double collection (paperback, 158 pages, in French).
The novel parodies the travel narrative: a writer comfortable in his private life is sent to Africa, where he dreams of finding a great poem and living an adventure worth telling. Reality resists, the hippopotamus hides, and the landscape refuses to be tamed; the traveller returns with red ears, caught between the sun and shame.
The work was originally published in 2005; the present edition, in the Double collection, dates from 2007.
It will appeal to readers of contemporary French literature and to those who appreciate ironic satire of the travel genre.
Éric Chevillard is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature.
