Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (French Modernist Library)

Benabou, Marcel

ISBN 10: 0803212399 / ISBN 13: 9780803212398

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1997

About this Item

2nd printing. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. dust jacket has light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (French Modernist Library)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803212399
• ISBN 13: 9780803212398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Marcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full one accuses. Bénabou knows the heroic joy of depriving critics of victims, the kindness of sparing publishers decisions, and the public charity of leaving more room in bookstore displays. Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (Pourquoi je n’ai écrit aucun de mes livres) provides both a respectful litany of writers’ fears and a dismissal of the alibis offered to excuse them.

About the Author

The author (or not) of a dozen books, Marcel Bénabou is a professor of ancient history at the University of Paris VII and permanent provisional secretary of Oulipo. David Kornacker is a writer and translator living in New York City. Warren Motte is a professor of French at the University of Colorado.