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Pierre Mac Orlan and
Napoleon Jeffries (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Distributed Art Pub Inc
Publication date
October 31, 2013
Pages
73
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781939663009
ISBN-10
1939663008
Dimensions
0.25 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$12.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Pierre Mac Orlanâs 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genreâs real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I. âIt must be established as a law that adventure in itself does not exist,â Mac Orlan stipulates. âAdventure is in the mind of the one who pursues it, and no sooner is he able to touch it with his finger than it vanishes, to reappear much farther off in another form, at the limits of the imagination.â This handbook outlines two classes of adventurer: the active adventurer (sailors, soldiers, criminals) and the passive adventurer (sedentary parasites who draw sustenance from the exploits of the former). Roaming from battlefields to pirate ships to port-town taverns, and offering advice on reading, traveling and eroticism, Mac Orlanâs Handbook is ultimately a how-to manual for the imagination, and a formulation of the stark choice all would-be adventurers must face: to live or write.
Generally known as the author of Le Quai des brumes (the basis for Marcel Carnéâs film of the same name), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882â1970) was a prolific writer of absurdist tales, adventure novels, flagellation erotica and essays, as well as the composer of a trove of songs made famous by the likes of Juliette Gréco. A member of both the Académie Goncourt and the Collège de âPataphysique, Mac Orlan was admired by everyone from Raymond Queneau and Boris Vian to André Malraux and Guy Debord.
Generally known as the author of Le Quai des brumes (the basis for Marcel Carnéâs film of the same name), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882â1970) was a prolific writer of absurdist tales, adventure novels, flagellation erotica and essays, as well as the composer of a trove of songs made famous by the likes of Juliette Gréco. A member of both the Académie Goncourt and the Collège de âPataphysique, Mac Orlan was admired by everyone from Raymond Queneau and Boris Vian to André Malraux and Guy Debord.
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With Napoleon Jeffries (other contributor) |
from Distributed Art Pub Inc (October 31, 2013)
9781939663009 | details & prices | 73 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $12.95
About: Pierre Mac Orlanâs 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genreâs real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I.
About: Pierre Mac Orlanâs 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genreâs real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I.
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