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Fuse Book Review: Pierre Michon and his Many Artistic “Lives”

John Taylor just published a piece on Michon’s translation in English for The Arts Fuse. On Michon’s style:

Offering the long view, as would a novel, of life as a concatenation of a great number of events between birth and death would not suit [Michon’s] stylistic inclinations. Instead, he focuses on a handful of scenes and musters his exceptional style — arguably, closer to the prose poem than to narrative prose — in an attempt to make them at once palpable and emblematic. Nothing is diluted; these are heady, compassionate distillations — like cognac.

Read the whole review here.

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