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The Skin of Dreams
Paperback - 208 pages
In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
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The Skin of Dreamsā
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The Skin of Dreams
Paperback - 208 pages
In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
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Paperback - 208 pages
In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
The Skin of DreamsĀ is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely whichĀ himĀ he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques LāAumĆ“ne, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the taleās humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneauās great loves, the cinema.
