Story of Love in Solitude [Paperback]

Lewinter perfectly captures the strangeness of infatuation and the way in which it becomes all too easy to project ones own narrative onto the bodies of those around?us.Lewinters uncanny gift for dissecting the abstract and unspoken aspects of attraction and self-awareness raises fiction to a higher level.[W]ritersworking at this level of care, the shifting of a word, a comma, can have atremendous impact, even a secret drama.[Lewinters] unique literary voice...is that of an obsessive, a philosopher, and a miniaturist.Lewinters proselengthy sentences, punctuated largely by commas, semicolons, and dasheshas hypnotic appeal when combined with his tendency toward meandering asides and lovely melancholy.Arriving in elegant, bilingual editions beautifully translated by Rachel Careau, The Attraction of Things and Story of Love in Solitude arethe first two books by Roger Lewinter to be published in English.Although written in the 1980s, these works seem anything but dated.Instead they feel immune to literary fashion. They exert the fascinationof something done carefully, even exhaustively, for its own sake ratherthan to please anyone else.The work of Roger Lewinter is essentially a work of reflection on meaning, on units of meaning and the logical problems posed by their ordering in the