{"product_id":"museum-visits-by-eric-chevillard-9780300254112","title":"Museum Visits","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÉric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honour the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favourite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarise the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humour newly accessible in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuseum Visits\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers into Chevillard's whimsical world, where the lines between reality and imagination blur, promising a literary journey filled with wit and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383927095532,"sku":"9780300254112","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24538863482294.jpg?v=1773389198","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/museum-visits-by-eric-chevillard-9780300254112","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}