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Distortions in the Classical Mirror, May 28 1996
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Albucius (Hardcover)
Pascal Quignard's reconstruction of life and works of Roman
novelist Albucius severely disturbs confidence in our "modernity"
and our courage as spectators to 'all that is human."
Its aggressive brief 'stories' and still more aggressive
commentary on our expectations place even a mature reader back
to some fearful beginning of experience. This is an uncommon
book in form, and substance, by an uncommon and learned
novelist and critic of present and past fictional norms.