Table of Contents

[No TOC]

About the Author

Christian Bobin is a writer from the small town of Le Creusot, France. More than forty of his works have been published, several of which have been translated into English. Bobin won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1992 for his work Le TrÈs-bas (The Very Lowly). Alison Anderson is the translator of J. M. G. Le ClÉzio’s Mondo and Other Stories (Nebraska, 2011) and Onitsha (Nebraska, 1997) as well as two collections of lyric essays by Christian Bobin, A Little Party Dress and I Never Dared Hope for You.

Reviews

Praise for the original French edition: "A text of luminous, intuitive grace." - Christine Ferniot, Lire Magazine "There is a Bobin style, a way of approaching literature through the joy that words radiate, the light they hold within." - Guy Goffette, Le Monde "A portrait full of empathy that cares little for chronology and facts, since what really matters to the author is elsewhere... Bobin preserves Emily Dickinson's fervor, her attentiveness to small things, to nothing, to simplicity... This is a biography full of grace and vision." - Gerard Pussey, Elle Magazine (France)