Bøger af Liliane Giraudon

Liliane Giraudon's SPHINX practically drips with the blood of its enemies. It's delicately marbled, like good meat. One of experimental French writing's most powerful and most undersung figures, Giraudon was born in Marseille in 1946. Working across prose and poetry--sometimes, too, between writing and drawing--Giraudon's work is difficult to pin down. Enigmatic without ever being coy, Giraudon's operational field is a mythic space, anchored in the classical past but firmly on the side of the living and our problems. "A dramatization of the present," Giraudon writes in one of the poems, "Not History." Lindsay Turner's translation renders perfectly the excruciating intimacy of these hypnagogic, fabular poems.

Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudon's power and range. Love is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudon's own. In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers, Love is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature. The heroes (or anti-heroes) in this collection include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lorine Niedecker, Emma Goldman, Chantal Akerman, the Marquis de Sade, and the unnamed lake itself. Giraudon's writing, editing, and visual work have been influential in France for decades, and English-speaking readers will thrill to this challenging, important voice.