The Fountains of Neptune (American Literature) by Rikki Ducornet
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Overview: The Fountains of Neptune (1989) is about a young French boy named Nicolas who falls into a deep sleep at age nine, waking up decades later, having slept through both World Wars, to find the world he knew changed or gone. With the help of a psychoanalyst, he begins to reconstruct his past and to recapture the magic of the lost world of his childhood. It is a magic which, he comes to realize, has been constructed over a repressed act of violence which finally surged up to take him in its watery arms. The Fountains of Neptune is a story about storytelling and fables, in which ex-sailors and drunks fill a child’s head with fantastical yarns that seem to him a code for expressing reality. Here, language is manic as well as magical, more evocative than descriptive. The Fountains of Neptune is a story too about a changed world, about the effort to reconstruct a lost world from its ruins. (Dalkey Archive)
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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