Lili is Crying

Author:   Hélène Bessette ,  Kate Briggs ,  Eimear McBride
Publisher:   Fitzcarraldo Editions
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9781804271674


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 June 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Lili 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.

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Author:   Hélène Bessette ,  Kate Briggs ,  Eimear McBride
Publisher:   Fitzcarraldo Editions
Imprint:   Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:  

9781804271674


ISBN 10:   1804271675
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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

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‘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


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Hélène 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. 

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