Liliane Giraudon, Fur (Sun & Moon Classics)
, Trans. by Guy Bennett, Sun & Moon Press, 2002."The first few stories in here just kind of floated past my subconscious when I read them, but as soon as I hit “The Complex” (I think that’s the title? Book’s at home, I’m bad with titles, will check when I get there) I became so fully engrossed that I could barely pause between stories. Giraudon writes with a very strange tone– it’s distanced, but emotional and hyper-present at the same time, detached but descriptive, enigmatic but banal. For some reason I kept thinking of apocryphal author Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta’s collection The Eyes, but probably only because it was another totally alien short story collection that sucked me in slowly.
I think I need to read this again, and soon, at least some of the stories, because it’s so alien but beautiful, really great. – Mike Kitchell
„The first thing that strikes the reader of the fiction of Liliane Giraudon is that she doesn't write like anyone else. Her voice is hypnotic, inscrutable, unique. A trip through one of her narratives is like a somnambular stroll through a rain-soaked ravine with an unreadable road map; a ramble in fugue-state through a wilderness where signposts are written in the language of emotion and the logic of the heart. FUR is a book of disturbing beauty reverberant with endless mystery.“ – review @ Amazon.com
Poem "My Beckett"
Jeanette Gaudet: Writing Otherwise: Atlan, Duras, Giraudon, Redonnet, and Wittig
Liliane Giraudon, Pallaksch, Pallaksch (Sun & Moon Classics), Trans. By Julia Hine, Sun & Moon Press, 2000.
"Odd little prose pieces. Not really stories at all, but character pieces. Lovely and strange, like the one about a woman who wears cherry print tights." – Scott @ goodreads
"Evocative tales about grotesque characters (located on the Atlantic Coast of France?) who find beauty in rather horrific acts." – J.d. @ goodreads
