The Great Fire of London: A Story With Interpolations and Bifurcations (paperback) Poetry"I've devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal scrawl the paper." Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of the "I've devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal scrawl the paper." Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of
The debut novel of Bernard Comment
Scenes delves into the conflict between tradition and progress
elegantly written
was longlisted for the Orange Prize
borrowed from books
Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical
tram tracks shake their stops away like fleas
Lisa Hayden:
BERNARD QUIRINY
) It’s the very rare reader who won’t relish it
and English translations of his stories have appeared in Conjunctions and the Lana Turner Journal
in fifteen essays—some previously published