The Attraction of Things [Paperback]

With Lewinter, beginning a sentence is an entryway to a maze that guides you through a labyrinthine use of time that ends back at the beginning. He is at his most intricate inThe Attraction of Things and Story of Love in Solitude, two short booksby Roger Lewinter, are the first by the French author, editor, andtranslator to appear in English. Majestically rendered by Rachel Careau,their publication represents an opportunity to give Lewinter theprominence he deserves...Short and very powerful.&us[es] language to alchemize the ordinary into something extraordinary.Roger Lewinters works, both humanly touching and artistically innovative, are spectacularly individual. Obsessively, and in the most incisive detail, they portray some of the crucial events and ideas of his life in prose at once headlong and passionate in its pacing, and tight and cerebral in its articulation. In this volume, Lewinters highly intricate syntax, which necessarily so closely reflects and reproduces his complexly layered thinking, has been meticulously and eloquently recreated by Rachel Careau in her masterful translation.It takes some patience to walk with Lewinter through these passages, but if you do stay with him, you might arrive at that gem you have been looking for, or one that you werent even aware you?needed.You absolutely must read Roger Lewinter, beginning with two perfect narratives: