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Mark Polizzotti
Mark Polizzotti is an award-winning biographer, critic, translator, editor, and poet. His books include the collaborative novel S. (1991; with Harry Mathews, Jean Echenoz, et al.), Lautreamont Nomad (1994; revised ed. 2005), Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton (1995; revised ed.... show more

Mark Polizzotti is an award-winning biographer, critic, translator, editor, and poet. His books include the collaborative novel S. (1991; with Harry Mathews, Jean Echenoz, et al.), Lautreamont Nomad (1994; revised ed. 2005), Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton (1995; revised ed. 2009), a monograph on Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados (2006), and Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (2006). His essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, ARTnews, The Nation, Parnassus, Partisan Review, and elsewhere. The translator of over thirty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Andre Breton, Jean Echenoz, and Maurice Roche, he directs the publications program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Just Olga and her books
Just Olga and her books rated it 8 years ago
Thanks to Net Galley and to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Mariner Books for providing me a free ARC copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. This is the first of Patrick Modiano’s novels I read, so I can’t comment on its similarities or differences with the rest of his oeuvre or how well...
KOMET
KOMET rated it 9 years ago
When I began reading "I'M GONE" 3 days ago, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. At first reading, the writing style seemed too glib and casually crafted, bordering on the banal. But the author, I think, did a clever thing by inserting in the opening pages, Felix Ferrer leaving his wife Suzanne - i...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 9 years ago
Part of the appeal of "Syndrome E" is that it's hard to classify. It's part police procedural, part Michael Chriton style medical thriller, part docudrama and completely French. It stinks of a gritty, uncompromising, almost fatalistic realism while embracing some on-the-edge-of-credible ideas. It ...
Leopard
Leopard rated it 10 years ago
[This book has been translated into English under the titles I'm Gone and I'm Off.] Jean Echenoz (b. 1947) is a French novelist weighted down by a dozen literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt for Je m'en vais (1999), a cooly ironic intertwining of play with literary genres and of the emp...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 10 years ago
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley It’s sad but I hadn’t heard of Patrick Modiano until he won the Nobel. Honestly, my first reaction was “who is that”. Yeah, American press doesn’t do too well when it comes to books that require translation. In terms...
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