{"product_id":"sphinx-paperback","title":"Sphinx - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Levin Becker\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eEntropy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eBookriot\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréeacute;ta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, \"I,\" and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne F. Garréta is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the Oulipo. A normalien (graduate of France's prestigious École normale supérieure) and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, Anne F. Garréta was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e (Grasset, 1986), hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator's love interest, A***. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eCiels liquides\u003c\/i\u003e (Grasset, 1990), told the fate of a character losing the use of language. In \u003ci\u003eLa Décomposition\u003c\/i\u003e (Grasset, 1999), a serial killer methodically murdered characters from Marcel Proust's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. She met Oulipian Jacques Roubaud in Vienna in 1993, and was invited to present her work at an Oulipo seminar in March 1994 and again in May 2000, which led to her joining the Oulipo. She won France's prestigious Prix Médicis in 2002, awarded each year to an author whose \"fame does not yet match their talent\" (she is the second Oulipian to win the award--Georges Perec won in 1978), for her latest novel, \u003ci\u003ePas un jour\u003c\/i\u003e (Grasset, 2002). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmma Ramadan is a graduate of Brown University, and received her Master's in Literary Translation from the American University of Paris. Her translation of Anne Parian's \u003ci\u003eMonospace\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from La Presse. She is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship for literary translation in Morocco.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50335752159469,"sku":"9781941920091","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/GsM_6i5QUj9781941920091.webp?v=1785048022","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/sphinx-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}