Month: April 2008
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Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, trans. Luc SanteNew York Review of Books, 2007
I read this book in March but forgot to write about it at the time: it’s a collection of short news items by Fénéon, published anonymously in a French newspaper in 1906. They’re mostly police-blotter items, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, often worded in a clever or interesting way. On page 85, for example: “”M. Jules…