On the Ceiling

Author

Éric Chevillard

Original Work

On the Ceiling

Translator

Jordan Stump

Foreword / Afterword

Jordan Stump

Language

English

Year

2000

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Pages

135

ISBN

0803215045

0000

On the Ceiling tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Mäline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at Mäline?s, however, and in search of something better they make the collective decision to move to the ceiling of her house, where they expect to find a more orderly, more rational, and less encumbered existence. _ric Chevillard?s trademark is inventing characters who have little choice but to dream up the most hopelessly outlandish and breathtakingly brilliant schemes if they are to survive the rigors of their existence. He is fascinated by the imperious need we all feel to make life bearable and by the lengths to which we are willing to go in that pursuit. The characters in On the Ceiling are prepared to go rather further than most of us. Chevillard, one of the most inventive young authors on the French literary scene, is the author of eight novels.— Google Books