I never heard about Félix Fénéon, but the title of his book "Novels in Three Lines" caught my attention. Fénéon (1861-1944) was an intellectual anarchist, and he worked on the backstage of literature. He translated, published and even discovered many of the authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Proust, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Seurat, Gide, Joyce - but rarely affixed his own to any work.In 1906 Fénéon began producing three-line items for the Parisian daily Le Matin, which now have been translated into English. Take a moment, and taste it:
"There is no longer a God even for drunkards. Kersilie, of St.-Germain, who had mistaken the window for the door, is dead."
2 comments:
So strange Sahar-on my first visit to your blog I encounter a recommendation for a book someone just gave me today. A curiousity indeed.
Lital, it is weird, but as a metawriter you know, there is no coincidence. evrything has a reason.
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