A Day in the Strait (French Series)
Editorial Reviews
Geoffrey O'Brien Village Voice
Opening Emmanuel Hocquard's "narration" A Day in the Strait we find ourselves on stage. The book's first part is entitled "A Shadow Theater" and would seem to be an investigation of how memory theatricalized the world. Hocquard uses a day's uneventful outing as a means for considering how to perceive, how to describe, how to remember....Hocquard's Moroccan childhood may account for the Mediterranean light that bathes his writing...He seems haunted by bright shards of a lost coherence....The point that Hocquard reaches at the end of his journey has always been there on the horizon of language, always just beyond touching or possessing-- "While the landscape faded as night approached, this fabric in the air no longer hinted at anything but its transparency."
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poetry, tr Maryann De Julio & Jane Staw
A Day in the Strait (French Series)
A Day in the Strait (French Series),Emmanuel Hocquard,Maryam Dejulio,Jane Staw,Red Dust, Inc.,087376045X,Fiction,Fiction / Literary,French (Language) Contemporary Fiction,French fiction,Literary
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