Hoppla! 1 2 3 Microfiction is a precision-cut gem of

is a precision-cut gem of literary minimalism

Language and logic are pushed to their farthest extremes in one of Chevillard’s funniest novels yet

in other locales

organic process to an impossibly vast scale so that we might see the inherent complexity within

published in 2008

Hoppla! 1 2 3 Microfiction is a precision-cut gem ofBy Grard Gavarry Translated by Jane Kuntz Publication Date: 06 09 2009 ISBN: 9781564785367 The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard Gavarry is a writer who knows how literary inventiveness can shed new light on a serious subject, and Hoppla! tells its story three times, in three separate sections,