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Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's Mobile is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America. The text is composed from a wide range of materials, including city names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings, newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair, Native American writings, and the history of the Freedomland theme park. Butor weaves bits and pieces from these diverse sources into a collage resembling an abstract painting (the book is dedicated to Jackson Pollock) or a patchwork quilt that by turns is both humorous and quite disturbing. This travelogue captures -- in both a textual and visual way -- the energy and contradictions of American life and history.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Mobile
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Michel Butor, Richard Howard, John D'Agata
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781564783431
• ISBN: 156478343X
• ID: 04813692
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 65 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2004

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