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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Grenier, Roger, 1919-2017, author.
Uniform title:	Palais des livres. English
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 150 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Essays -- Authorship. French literature -- History and criticism. Essays -- Authorship. French literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235852

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.
ISBN:	9780226232591 022623259X 9780226308340 0226308340
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150). Online resource; title from digital title page (ebrary platform, viewed November 4, 2014).
Summary:	For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, clichés crumble, and offbeat anecdotes build to powerful insights. With Palace of Books, he invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses. Engaging such fundamental questions as why people feel the need to write, or what is involved in putting one's self on the page, or how a writer knows she's written her last sentence, Grenier marshals apposite passages from his favorite writers: Chekhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James, Kafka, Mansfield and many others. Those writers mingle companionably with tales from Grenier's half-century as an editor and friend to countless legendary figures, including Albert Camus, Romain Gary, Milan Kundera, and Brassai,. Grenier offers here a series of observations and "ations that feel as spontaneous as good conversation, yet carry the lasting insights of a lifetime of reading and thinking. Palace of Books is rich with pleasures and surprises, the perfect accompaniment to old literary favorites, and the perfect introduction to new ones.
Other form:	Print version: Grenier, Roger, 1919- Palais des livres. English. Palace of books 9780226308340

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Alice Kaplan
"The land of poets"
Waiting and eternity
Leave-taking
Private life
Writing about love, again ...
A half hour at the dentist's
Unfinished
Do I have anything left to say?
To be loved.