The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Oulipo-author Paul Fournel's 1978 novel, Little Girls Breathe the Same Air as We Do.
This actually came out in English very quickly, George Braziller publishing it in 1979, and for example the Kirkus review suggested:
(I)t remains an odd, narrow exercise -- significant only as a minor-key promise of things to come from this young French writer.Ah, yes, the promise ! And a lot did come -- only not into English, with the recently published Dear Reader the first of his novels to be translated since then, after well over thirty years ! (though there was also that bicycling book in the meantime).
Born in 1947, Fournel was indeed a promising young 32-year-old when Little Girls Breathe the Same Air as We Do -- and only now returns to the US/UK scene when he is closing in on 70. Add a Comment