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`Fragments: the result of dispersion, of destruction perhaps - but also the indispensable ingredients for a promise of reparation. This duality lies at the heart of the final volume of Colette Fellous's work of remembrance... merely giving shape to intimate material, from which to look out on the world, and welcome in the outside.... Faced with hopeless violence, the eye remains alert and leads the frontline for the gentleness which Colette Fellous learnt from Barthes, so that the moment of hiatus is calm and bright - a redemption. This book interrogates our reaction in the face of a world in shreds.' (Le Monde Des Livres). `Beyond the sadness and the loss, is a great seductive energy - we are drawn by a wish to live and to learn - and Fellous's inimitable way of regarding the world.' (Madame Figaro for Un amour de frere). `Without nostalgic yearning, lithe and fluid in her way of capturing the coruscating nature of words, Fellous weaves past and present into a labyrinth of a book in which she shares her passions: writing, tuning herself to the world and untangling with relish the threads of reality and of thought.' (Le Magazine Litteraire for La preparation de la vie). `Like a true disciple of Barthes, Colette Fellous works in fragments which she stiches together with infinite delicacy, inlaying the fabric of the text with black and white photographs, embroidering its surface with precious details; a sensual constellation of memories, colours and scents... The self as a fragment becomes an art, elegant and sensitive, as Colette Fellous returns to the vestiges of the past.' (Les Inrockuptibles for La preparation de la vie)

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Colette Fellous is the author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd'hui (2005) for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La preparation de la vie (2014) in which she pays homage to her mentor Roland Barthes. A publisher and former radio producer for France Culture, she lives between France and Tunisia, and is also a photographer. This Tilting World is her first book published in English. Sophie Lewis translates from French and Portuguese. She has translated Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Ayme, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, Leila Slimani, Noemi Lefebvre (shortlisted in 2018 for the Scott Moncrieff Prize), Sheyla Smanioto and Joao Gilberto Noll, among others.

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