Story of Love in Solitude

Several stories inhabit Roger Lewinter s first small book to appear in English, Story of Love in Solitude. Each story takes the form of a loop: a spider who won t stop returning; camellias that flourish and then die; dying parents whose presence is always yet felt; turning again and again to work on [...]
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Several stories inhabit Roger Lewinter s first small book to appear in English, Story of Love in Solitude. Each story takes the form of a loop: a spider who won t stop returning; camellias that flourish and then die; dying parents whose presence is always yet felt; turning again and again to work on Rilke translations; a younger man whom the narrator sees each week at the Geneva street markets. All the tales touch on the possibility, the open possibility of love a loop without end.Lewinter s short fictional works are at once prose poems and a form of dreaming; they are akin to the great French tradition of things sparking emotions and emotions sparking things part Sarraute, part Robbe-Grillet, part Perec. Plot is not really the point of his meditative works. Lewinter concerns himself more with perception, apperception, and sudden inflections of grace: loss and beauty meet in an explosion of joy, which becomes, in its brilliance, a means of transmittal. "