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Burqa of Skin

2016

Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and her preoccupations with such recurring themes as our culture's vertiginous obsession with youth, and its reverse: the draw of death. Now beyond the ripples of scandal Arcan's work has caused, here are the last echoes of her work, and it is as stunning as it is brief. Burqa of Skin, with its gruesome title, catapults her work into contemporary debates on culture and gender. The book collects three previously unpublished works: The Dress, The Child in the Mirror and Shame. The first two are written in the first person, in that turbulent, suffocating language that was Arcan's singular brand, that of a writer on the edge. In the third text, she analyses with inexhaustible ferocity her humiliating experience on the set of a TV talk show. Two lesser-known non-fiction pieces are also included in this collection: a reflection on speed dating and a column published in 2004 titled Suicide Can Be Harmful to Your Health.
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Authors

Nelly Arcan, Melissa Bull

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C848/.603
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Translation of: Burqa de chair Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781772140019 9781772140620
LCCN
PQ3919.3.A78
LCCN Item number
B8713 2014eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (121 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00970967 (OCoLC)946888776 (CaOOCEL)451230
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaBNVSL

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