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NYRB Classics
September 2007
On Sale: August 21, 2007
208 pages
ISBN: 1590172302
EAN: 9781590172308
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Fiction
Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items
that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin
in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life
presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter
even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered
until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into
English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy,
anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges
Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon
carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as
an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in
Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange
and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906
with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking
forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades
Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
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