Eléctrico W

Hervé Le Tellier

• Other Authors Adriana Hunter (Translator)
• Title

  Eléctrico W

• Date 2012
• ISBN 9781590515334
• Publisher New York, NY: Other Press
• Description 257 pp; 8.2 in
• Language English (translated from French)
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life.

  Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer moves to Lisbon to escape from a failing affair. During his first assignment there, he teams up with Antonio—a photographer who has just returned to the city after a ten-year absence—to report for a French newspaper on an infamous serial killer’s trial. (Other Press)

  While walking around the city together to take notes and photos for the article, they visit the places of Antonio’s childhood, swap stories from their pasts, and confide in each other. But the more they learn about each other, the more their lives become inextricably intertwined.

  With a structure that parallels Homer’s Odyssey, Eléctrico W recounts their nine days together and the adventures that proliferate to form a constellation of successive ephemeral connections and relationships.

• Tags Fiction, Europe, French literature