{"product_id":"9781429963862","title":"The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, \u0026 Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, \u0026 Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, \u0026 a Variety of Helpful Indexes","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel that will be viscerated by the expat Gertrude Stein, whose first published story is based on one by Flaubert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis carousel of influence shows how translation and emigration lead to a new and true history of the novel. We devour novels in translation while believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. \u003ci\u003eThe Delighted States \u003c\/i\u003eattempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: the Delighted States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a provocation, a box of tricks, a bedside travel book; it is also a work of startling intelligence and originality from one of our finest young writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127396352240,"sku":"9781429963862","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429963862_p0.jpg?v=1769903059","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429963862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}