The Fool and Other Moral Tales
By Anne Serre
2019
First Published
3.44
Average Rating
228
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From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre―author of the celebrated Governesses ―come three delicious, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales. Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool “may have stepped out of a tarot I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them…a figure observing you can turn the world upside down.” The Narrator concerns a sort of “Outcasts who can’t even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge he can tell a story.” Little Table, Set Yourself! ―a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous―is the most overtly a fable of these three works, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin. A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual and surreal these may be romps, but nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.
Avg Rating
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