Benoît Reiss

L’ombre de la fable

The Shadow of the Fable

March 1, 2004
Poetry
80 pages
150 × 230 mm
17 €
9782841160860
978-2-8411-6086-0
																Benoît Reiss, L’ombre de la fable
																Benoît Reiss, L’ombre de la fable

“A piece of family mythology, according to which a chapel in the countryside was built by a grandfather, engages the narrator in a free and alert exploration of his past. A way for him to resist the pretensions of the “fable” to govern our inner life and to shape our own identity. It is also a way of observing how our representation of the world and of time is elaborated, almost without our knowledge. Benoît Reiss has written a book that is both casual and serious, conducted with the lightness of a thought that is joyfully invented before our eyes.”
—Jean-Marie Barnaud

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.

March 1, 2004
Poetry
80 pages
150 × 230 mm
17 €
9782841160860
978-2-8411-6086-0