Prehistoric Times

Download or read book Palafox written by Eric Chevillard and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Chevillard’s visionary play of word and thought has been compared to the work of Beckett, Michaux, and Pinget, yet the universe he spins is utterly his own. Palafox (Editions de Minuit, 1990), Chevillard’s third novel of eleven, explores the ecosystem of an unclassifiable yet enchanting protean creature, Palafox. A team of experts armed with degrees of higher learning is determined to label, train, baptize, and realize the elusive creature, while Palafox effortlessly and wordlessly defies them all.