Sunday, November 30, 2014
Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:08PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
The prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMFriday, October 24, 2014
Although Street of Thieves is less accomplished than Zone, it once again displays how Matthias Énard is seeking new ways to bring political issues into precise, often gripping prose.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMMonday, October 13, 2014
André du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are star…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:11PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Privy Portrait portrays a contemporary human being who has lost all handholds, all footholds, all practical, moral, and metaphysical support—except for that provided by the articles of his…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PMTuesday, August 26, 2014
Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:09PMFriday, August 22, 2014
IGellu Naum does not use the heterogeneous juxtapositions of surrealism to create something jocular, absurd, prankish, or gratuitously paradoxical, but to fashion a new kind of symbolic orde…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:41AMThursday, May 29, 2014
Eschewing harrowing realistic description, Jean Echenoz adopts a jocular sardonic approach to the most gruesome battlefield realities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
"On Leave" is a worthwhile novel that deserves this English revival because it convincingly conveys the alienation felt by soldiers who return home on a brief leave from hostilities taking p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:51AMMonday, March 31, 2014
The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or makin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:52PMFriday, February 21, 2014
French writer Philippe Jaccottet’s ever-questioning poetic analyses of haunting ephemeral perceptions are carried on with such scruple and sincerity that, for his European peers, he has be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMFriday, January 31, 2014
Pierre Reverdy's poetry that is suspicious of the deceiving beauty of words, hence its pared-down, elemental, stylistic qualities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:32PM 
