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28 Paradises

English

By (author): Dominique Zehrfuss Patrick Modiano

28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couples creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful dream. There are twenty-eight dreams in this book, or perhaps one dream in twenty-eight partsvisions of paradise imagined by Zehrfuss during a time of deep sadness. Captured first in Zehrfusss brightly colored gouaches, each paradise was then refashioned as a poem by Modiano.

Zehrfusss paintings are Edens in miniature, and rather than describe them outright, Modiano dreams himself into these reveries in quiet, understated verse. The reader enters this shared realm in an experience less like paging through a book and more like slipping into a shared world. These paradises are wishes for moments when a painting, or a poem, or a loverperhaps they are not so differentrelieves the loneliness of being human. As Modiano writes with a touch of wistfulness, The Lilliputian painted her paradises / And I / Next to her / Wrote a poem. A pure example of ekphrastic writingpoetry inspired by paintings this book shows how writing and visual art can together create a unique emotional experience.

First published by Editions de lOlivier/ Le Seuil in 2005 See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 70g
  • Dimensions: 105 x 177mm
  • Publication Date: 09 May 2019
  • Publisher: David Zwirner
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781644230022

About Dominique ZehrfussPatrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano spent his childhood between Paris Haute-Savoie and Jouy-en- Josas. Having been awarded his baccalaureate he dedicated himself to literature at the age of eighteen. It was Raymond Queneau who introduced to him the literary circles of Paris in the 1960s. He won the Grand Prix du roman de lAcadémie française in 1972 and the Prix Goncourt in 1978. In 2014 his oeuvre was crowned with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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