Julien Gracq's short fiction. The Peninsula is a deceptively simple work with regard to plot. Simon is at the Brevenay train station in Brittany waiting for his lover, Irmgard, although she has warned
In Small Lives, Pierre Michon paints portraits of eight individuals whose stories span two centuries in his native region of La Creuse. In the process of exploring their lives, he explores the act of
Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines t
Winner of the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman. "Michon's prose tends to slow down in order to oblige you to hear its rhythms and also to see and touch and smell what is happening beneath it."—Har
