Christine Macel, Author, Yve-Alain Bois, Author, Olivier Rolin, Author . Prestel $79 (444p) ISBN 978-3-7913-3035-8
Is it just a coincidence that this fantastical catalogue of French artist Sophie Calle's projects over the years ever so slightly resembles, in its intimate size (23.5 cm x 16.8 cm) and padded cover, a diary? Indeed, the first "piece,"...
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Olivier Rolin, Author, Jane Kuntz, Translator , trans. from the French by Jane Kuntz. Dalkey Archive $12.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-56478-492-6
Using a Georges Perec line about memory as his point of departure, Rolin, a French journalist and accomplished novelist (Port-Soudan
, Tigre en papier
), has fashioned in forensic detail a travelogue of hotel rooms around the globe. From Room 308 in
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Olivier Rolin, Author, William Cloonan, Translator , trans. from the French by William Cloonan. Univ. of Nebraska $40 (203p) ISBN 978-0-8032-8999-4
A former Communist radical recalls his revolutionary cell's late 1960s glory days as he drives around contemporary Paris and explains "the movement" to Marie, the daughter of a comrade who died under questionable circumstances. Back in...
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