Letters from My Windmill

Oct 27, 2024 4:29 PM

Author:Alphonse Daudet,Frederick Davies

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting.

Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence. These tales of that region are characterised by a tenderness and delicacy, a wistfulness and wry humour, which give moving substance to his claim that to invent, for him, was to remember.

Reviews

Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance.

—— Saturday Review

Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist

—— The Boston Globe

Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep

—— Kate Atkinson

The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer

—— The Times

One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century

—— Sunday Telegraph

Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master

—— Kurt Vonnegut

Keret's surreal conceits are couched in a wry, downbeat language...The effect is something like a sorrowful hybrid of Kafka and Donald Barthelme: deadpan on the surface, with a bassnote of discomfort and emotional alienation that makes even the briefest tales snag in the mind...Each piece is at once universal and particular...world-class gems. The translation is brilliant, too

—— Tim Martin , Daily Telegraph

Etgar Keret is the voice of young Israel

—— Independent

One of the greatest short story writers alive

—— Ben Rice

One of the most important writers alive... enchantingly witty

—— Clive James

Etgar Keret's extraordinary imagination sets the reader free from slogans and headlines

—— Linda Grant

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