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My Friends (Paperback, Main)
Emmanuel Bove, Janet Louth; Introduction by Garnette Cadogan
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An NYRB Classics Original Emmanuel Bove was one of the most
original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a
popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for
the publication of his first novel, "My Friends," Bove enjoyed a
busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him.
During his lifetime, Bove's novels and stories were admired by
Rainer Maria Rilke, the surrealists, Albert Camus, and Samuel
Beckett, who said of him that "more than anyone else he has an
instinct for the essential detail." "Henry Duchemin and His
Shadows" is the perfect introduction to Bove's world, with its cast
of stubborn isolatoes who call to mind Herman Melville's Bartleby,
Robert Walser's "little men," and Jean Rhys's lost women. The poet
of the flophouse and the dive, the park bench and the pigeon's
crumb, Bove is also a deeply empathetic writer for whom no defeat
is so great as to silence desire.
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