The Baudelaire Fractal - by Lisa Robertson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be, it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poáete maudit, she shuttles between London, Vancouver, Paris, and the French countryside, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present, from rented room to rented room, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity, poverty, and the perfect jacket. Part memoir, part magical realism, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet's life, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the inimitable Lisa Robertson."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire.</strong></p> <p>One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy's life.</p> <p>Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, <i>The Baudelaire Fractal</i> is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson's first novel.</p> <p>"Robertson, with feminist wit, a dash of kink, and a generous brain, has written an urtext that tenders there can be, in fact, or in fiction, no such thing. Hers is a boon for readers and writers, now and in the future."--<strong>Jennifer Krasinski, Bookforum</strong></p> <p>"It's brilliant, strange, and unlike anything I've read before."--<strong>Rebecca Hussey, BOOKRIOT</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An intense if abstract portrait of the poet as a young woman in search of a kind of language that might lead to liberation." - The Kirkus Reviews</p><br><br><p>"A difficult work of ideas, by turns enlightening and arcane, part autobiographical narrative, part literary theory, Robertson's debut novel, for those interested in possibilities of fiction, is not to be missed."--<strong>Publisher's Weekly</strong></p><br><br><p>"A new Lisa Robertson book is both a public event and a private kind of bacchanal." --<strong>Los Angeles Review of Books</strong></p><br><br><p>"And perhaps that's what Robertson, with this demanding, erudite, and quite remarkable novel, is telling us is required to return those who have been expunged from the pages of literature: time and effort."--<strong>Stephen Finucan, Quill & Quire</strong></p><br><br><p>"As far as I'm concerned, it's already a classic." --<strong>Anne Boyer</strong></p><br><br><p>"It's brilliant, strange, and unlike anything I've read before."--<strong>Rebecca Hussey, BOOKRIOT</strong></p><br><br><p>"Robertson, with feminist wit, a dash of kink, and a generous brain, has written an urtext that tenders there can be, in fact, or in fiction, no such thing. Hers is a boon for readers and writers, now and in the future."--<strong>Jennifer Krasinski, Bookforum</strong></p><br><br><p>"Things happen in the novel but none so much as the sentences themselves, they are the events; each sentence invites mediation, pause, excitement."--<strong>Allison Grimaldi Donahue, BOMB Magazine</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver, where in the early 90s she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada, the US, and Europe.</p>
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