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OverviewLili is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love - of desire run cold - and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, Lili is Crying marked the beginning of a singular writing career. Bessette's work is translated into English for the first time here by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hélène Bessette , Kate Briggs , Eimear McBridePublisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions ISBN: 9781804271674ISBN 10: 1804271675 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 05 June 2025 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Language: French Table of ContentsReviews‘AT LAST, SOMETHING NEW.’ — Raymond Queneau, author of Zazie in the Metro ‘Living literature, for me, in France today – it’s Hélène Bessette.’ — Marguerite Duras 'AT LAST, SOMETHING NEW.' -- Raymond Queneau, author of Zazie in the Metro 'Living literature, for me, in France today - it's H�l�ne Bessette.' -- Marguerite Duras ‘Lili is Crying is not straightforwardly tragic – as the title may initially trick us into believing – but darkly funny, marvellously strange, insistently performative and, somehow, truer than true.’ — Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes ‘This book is brilliant and bizarre, a Grey Gardens-esque tragicomedy, as if written by a sinister cousin of Stevie Smith.’ — Camilla Grudova, author of The Coiled Serpent ‘AT LAST, SOMETHING NEW.’ — Raymond Queneau, author of Zazie in the Metro ‘Living literature, for me, in France today – it’s Hélène Bessette.’ — Marguerite Duras Author InformationHélène Bessette (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Cazes prize in 1954 and was twice in the running for the Goncourt prize and the Médicis prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |