Proustiennes by Jean Fremon and translated by Brian Evenson

This is poetry from France.

Proustiennes by Jean Fremon translated by Brian Evenson is published by Fence Magazine, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78098643738E12.

Proustiennes, by Jean Frémon and translated by Brian Evenson, is a book whose title immediately places it in conversation with memory, duration, and literary afterimage. Frémon’s French writing often moves across art, criticism, fiction, and poetic prose, and a Proustian atmosphere means time is never simply background. It is material. Evenson’s translation brings the work into English with an ear for strangeness and restraint. I would read Proustiennes not as an accessory to Proust, but as a set of meditations on what reading leaves behind in us. The title suggests traces, portraits, rooms, names, perhaps the emotional debris of literature itself. Some books are about memory; others behave like memory. This seems closer to the second category.

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