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Need for the Bike Paperback - 2003

by Paul Fournel; Allan Stoekl (Translator); Introduction by Allan Stoekl

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A book like no other, Frenchman Paul Fournel's Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling--from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist. An extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would like to ride bikes (dogs, for instance) and those that would prefer to watch (cows, marmots), and reflects on the fundamental absurdity of turning over the pedals mile after excruciating mile. At the same time, Fournel captures the sound, smell, feel, and language of the reality and history of cycling, in the mountains, in the city, escaping the city, in groups, alone, suffering, exhausted, exhilarated. In his attention to the pleasures of cycling, to the specific "grain" of different cycling experiences, and to the inscription of these experiences in the body's cycling memory, Fournel portrays cycling as a descriptive universe, colorful, lyrical, inclusive, exclusive, complete.

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  • Title Need for the Bike
  • Author Paul Fournel; Allan Stoekl (Translator); Introduction by Allan Stoekl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 150
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln
  • Publication date 2003-09-01
  • ISBN 9780803269095 / 0803269099
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.31 x 7.85 x 0.35 in (21.11 x 19.94 x 0.89 cm)
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Library of Congress subjects Cycling
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003043447
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.62

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  • Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2003, 09/01/2003, Page 1
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2003, Page 93
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2004, Page 66

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Paul Fournel is a member of Oulipo, a collective of avant-garde writers whose works focus on the problems and puzzles of language. He is presently the cultural attach at the French Embassy in Cairo. Allan Stoekl is a professor of French at Pennsylvania State University, the author and editor of a number of books, and the translator of Maurice Blanchot's The Most High (Nebraska 1996).

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