Benoît Reiss

Aux replis

To the Folds

January 1, 2015
Poetry
144 pages
145 × 225 mm
23 €
9782841162130
978-2-8411-6213-0
																Benoît Reiss, Aux replis
																Benoît Reiss, Aux replis

“There is the story, certainly, that Aux replis offers: the exile of a Viennese student in Free France, at the beginning of the war, in a small imaginary town in the south of France. And his effort to blend into the landscape, despite the subtle and devious games of oppression.
But above all, there is what this story is about, the desperate search for a place to live that is more than a shelter: a place to be. Hence this question that could be formulated as follows: “do I have a place to be?”, which exceeds the historical circumstance. Also the worried and disconcerted narrator, looking for a support in what offers itself in him and around him, is close to us. All the more so as Reiss’ writing, whose vocation is to reveal the intimate and secret life of beings, retains us at every moment in its intensity.”
—Jean-Pierre Siméon

The author

Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.

January 1, 2015
Poetry
144 pages
145 × 225 mm
23 €
9782841162130
978-2-8411-6213-0