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Book SynopsisStunning fragments that offer an epiphany of grace and beauty Trade Review"With Lewinter, beginning a sentence is an entryway to a maze that guides you through a labyrinthine use of time that ends back at the beginning. He is at his most intricate in
The Attraction of Things, a fictional treatise on the magnetism of things and how we are inexplicably drawn to them without knowing why." -- Monica Carter - Best Translated Book Award
"The Attraction of Things and Story of Love in Solitude, two short books by Roger Lewinter, are the first by the French author, editor, and translator to appear in English. Majestically rendered by Rachel Careau, their publication represents an opportunity to give Lewinter the prominence he deserves..." -- K. Thomas Kahn - BOMB Magazine
"Short and very powerful." -- Scott Esposito - Conversational Reading
"…us[es] language to alchemize the ordinary into something extraordinary." -- Brian Evenson - Electric Literature
"Roger Lewinter’s works, both humanly touching and artistically innovative, are spectacularly individual. Obsessively, and in the most incisive detail, they portray some of the crucial events and ideas of his life in prose at once headlong and passionate in its pacing, and tight and cerebral in its articulation. In this volume, Lewinter’s highly intricate syntax, which necessarily so closely reflects and reproduces his complexly layered thinking, has been meticulously and eloquently recreated by Rachel Careau in her masterful translation." -- Lydia Davis
"It takes some patience to walk with Lewinter through these passages, but if you do stay with him, you might arrive at that gem you have been looking for, or one that you weren’t even aware you needed." -- Poupeh Missaghi
"You absolutely must read Roger Lewinter, beginning with two perfect narratives:
The Attraction of Things and
Story of Love in Solitude." -- David Lispiau - D-Fiction
"Monstrously exquisite." -- Patti Smith
