Title : Martin Dressler or the Novel of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser - book

Summary :

1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, for its French translation, the Maurice-Edgar Coindreau Prize, Martin Dressler or the novel of an American dreamer is part of the continuity of the demanding and rare work of one of the greatest contemporary writers.
The author of "The Too Short Life of Edwin Mullhouse, American Writer, 1943-1954, Told by Jeffrey Cartwright," winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1975, recounts here the mythical destiny of a self-made man in New York at the turn of the last century. This "dreamer" is Martin Dressler, the modest son of a cigar merchant, a pragmatic man and brilliant inventor, possessed by a visionary madness. This demiurge who listens to "his heart's desire" will experience a fortune that only dreams can make possible.
Steven Millhauser plays this science of trompe-l'oeil like a virtuoso, keeping the reader on the narrow border between dream and life, fiction and reality, truth and its representation. A fabulous story indeed, that of Martin Dressler, the embodiment of the American dream but also of the myths and utopias that have shaped the Western imagination.
With this extraordinary novel, Steven Millhauser establishes himself as the most European of current American authors.

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