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Novels in Three Lines (New York Review Books Classics)
Novels in Three Lines - New York Review Books Classics Author:Felix Feneon A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL — True Stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life from the dawn of the twentieth century — In 1906, Félix Fénéon wrote 1,220 short items for a Paris newspaper. Collected and published in France after his death, Fénéon’s miniature masterpieces are here translated into English for the first time. — From... more » adultery, murder, revenge, and traffic accidents to tax collection, daily life in France a century ago was as unexpectedly comic and tragic as anywhere else. But only a cultural figure like Fénéon—anarchist, editor, and art critic, champion of Seurat and French translator of Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen—could have transformed newspaper hack-work into a modernist mosaic that captures the particular details of a place and an age with such exquisite timing and humor. Novels in Three Lines not only anticipates literary “ready-mades” like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and Andy Warhol’s a: a novel; it is a unique artifact from the golden age of the newspaper and a window into early 20th-century France on the cusp of modernity.« less