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Lobster (novel)

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Lobster
AuthorGuillaume Lecasble
PublisherÉditions du Seuil
Publication date
2003
Media typePrint
ISBN9782020557658

Lobster is a French novella by Guillaume Lecasble. It was published in Paris by Les Éditions du Seuil in 2003, and has been translated into English and Spanish.

Reception

Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian, said of the English translation: "there was a Lobster-shaped hole in world literature which has now been neatly filled by this remarkable work".[1] In The Daily Telegraph, Sam Leith put it in a list of 'Mad Stuff'.[2] Kirkus Reviews called it a "brief, bizarre, boiling broth of surrealism, romantic fatalism and slapstick",[3] and Publishers Weekly said it was "both tender and appalling".[4]

References

  1. ^ Lezard, Nicholas (9 July 2005). "Cooked to perfection". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Leith, Sam (5 December 2005). "Mad Stuff". The Telegraph.
  3. ^ "An erotic shellfish fable". Kirkus Reviews. 1 November 2005.
  4. ^ "Lobster". Publishers Weekly. 10 October 2005.