Degrees

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1961). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 262 pp. Original full blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in blue, in original unclipped ($5.50) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners with some chips and loss to bottom front panel edge and spine ends. Handling and shelf wear mild. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight and firm. Light handling wear present. Corners curled. Mild toning to page edges. Light curling to spine ends. A few trivial nicks to panel edges. Previous owner’s name to ffep.

Dust Jacket: Acceptable

Hardcover: Good

“Journalists and critics have associated his novels with the nouveau roman, but Butor himself long resisted that association. The main point of similarity is a very general one, not much beyond that; like exponents of the nouveau roman, he can be described as an experimental writer. His best-known novel, La Modification, for instance, is written entirely in the second person. In his 1967 La critique et l'invention, he famously said that even the most literal quotation is already a kind of parody because of its "trans-contextualization."