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The Flemish writer Dani?l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to
identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them
all equal status as, simply, writing. This liberation from genre
gives his work, for all its apparent simplicity, an elusive,
hypnotic quality, and no more so than in his debut, "Arriving in
Avignon," which records a young man's first encounter with that
labyrinthine city, and his likewise meandering relationship with a
girl from his home town--and indeed virtually every woman he meets.
Hesistant and cautious, unable quite to enter nor turn away, the
young man seems to circle Avignon endlessly, in the process
attempting to delay his inevitable descent into maturity and
monogamy. What seems at first like a cross between a memoir and a
guidebook comes in time to be the story of a young man's dogged yet
futile quest to know his own mind--unless it's the ancient city of
Avignon itself that is our real protagonist: a mystery that can be
approached, but never wholly solved.
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