"Show me where you live and I'll tell you who you are": this sly commentary on materialism finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express ourselves through what we own.
Thomas Clerc was born in 1965 and is the author of several books,
including The Man Who Killed Roland Barthes, a collection of short
stories for which he received the Grand Prix de la Nouvelle of the
Académie Française. Clerc teaches at Université Paris Nanterre,
where he specializes in contemporary French literature.
Jeffrey Zuckerman is an award-winning translator of numerous French
authors, from Marie Darrieussecq and Ananda Devi to Antoine
Volodine and Hervé Guibert.
"Constructed out of short vignettes full of puns, references, and
epigrammatic phrasing, [Interior] displays [Thomas] Clerc's
glorious confidence that anything can be the stuff of literature .
. . This wonderfully translated, thought-provoking work questions
what defines a person, the relationships we have with the objects
that define our routines, and what literature can be." --Alexander
Moran, Booklist
"At heart, Interior is a tour of the author's apartment, animated
with a comic level of detail and consideration . . . Like Samuel
Beckett's fiction, [it] comes alive through its narrator . . ."
--The Millions "Dizzyingly indulgent, solipsistic, and self-assured
. . . The agoraphobic delight is palpable." --Audrey Deng, Columbia
Journal "Full of humor and brainy mischief . . . [A] mélange of
acuity and silliness, of pseudo-sociology and OTT TMI." --Kirkus
Reviews
"The well-named Clerc records everything . . . Interior is a design
book. Nothing at all to do with the pretty pictures that run
through glossy décor magazines, but rather with the discipline that
sees in every trinket or detail a theoretical signifier." --Clément
Ghys, Libération
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