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Olivier Cadiot<\/b><\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by Anna Fitzgerald<\/a><\/h2>\n

Introduction by Cole Swensen\"\"<\/h4>\n

ISBN: 978-1-944884-44-4 (pbk.)<\/p>\n

(January, 2020)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

In this, the most recent of Olivier Cadiot’s visionary works to be translated, an unnamed protagonist, a mage, reflects on his own past and on history and just about everything else in a meditation set in motion by a photograph by Nan Goldin. In a narrative that transcends chronology and genre, Cadiot writes at the limit of prose, using photographic images to punctuate the text and the fleeting imagery of poetry to move through history and mythology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cover photo: “Sharon in the River” \u00a9 Nan Goldin, used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From the Introduction by Cole Swensen<\/h3>\n

The truly uncanny aspect of Olivier Cadiot\u2019s work is that it\u2019s all true. Strange accuracies fly out of seeming absurdities, lighting them up from within. It\u2019s a new take on realism that\u2019s as optimistic as the 19th century version was pessimistic. Of course, the definition of realism is endlessly debatable\u2014and endlessly debated\u2014and while Cadiot himself would, no doubt, never have used the term, his work, fueled by a raging exuberance, keeps bringing us up, face-first, against visceral moments of pure presence\u2014than which no realer thing could or can be found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the woman who opens the book; she\u2019s real; her name is Sharon, and she is standing in a river, and the well-known photographer Nan Goldin is there too, standing just outside the frame, but because it\u2019s the frontal frame that she\u2019s exceeding, she\u2019s suddenly occupying us\u2014and \/or we\u2019ve just displaced her. It\u2019s a jolt\u2014and one that locates us even more firmly in the real that this work constantly unpeels.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sharon is still in her river, occupying it in order to in\/con\/re or simply fuse it, in order to create a liminal space, a space that is 100% liminality; therein the body can only dissolve, managing the metaphoric and the metonymic with a simultaneity that allows each to open the other on up. Charging the water: Sharon arcing\u2014rather electrically\u2014between a concrete visibility and a nether, and further, region of open interpretation\u2014where the mage can take hold. This, in a reductive and wayward sense, is the essence of the book.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

\n

Olivier Cadiot dances on a not-so-fine line between patter, satire, stream of consciousness, social commentary, poetry, prose, meditation, magic, performance, essay, comedy, melodrama, soliloquy, mania, dialectic, sublimity, tragedy. A Mage in Summer<\/i> does delight in voices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Charles Bernstein<\/strong>, author of Near\/Miss<\/i> and Pitch of Poetry<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cMore improbable than Nadja<\/i>,\u201d as Cadiot says, but his book is also more intimate than that one. We share his intimacy with color and light. More than any recent prose, this book makes us intimate with an artist\u2019s sense of possibility. Ginberg\u2019s \u201cdemocratic eyeball particulars\u201d teaming up with Robbe-Grillet\u2019s proof that a physical particular can be made a prose event, a prose intrigue. Anna Fitzgerald\u2019s translation sagely pares away French syntax, which would have created a rhetorical counter-current in English. She recognizes the dynamic range of this inventiveness\u2014a flow that branches away from stream of consciousness. Her images blaze.<\/p>\n

\u2014Peter Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, author of Harrison<\/i>, translator of Nabile Far\u00e8s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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