Lili Is Crying - Paperback

Bessette, H�l?ne: - H�l?ne Bessette (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Prix Cazes in 1954, and was twice in the running for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix M�dicis. In 1956, Bessette co-founded with her son Le Gang du roman po�tique (G.R.P): "The Gang of the Poetic Novel," an intergenerational literary movement of two. After her editor Raymond Queneau's death in 1976, her publisher ceased to support her. She died in poverty, in poor mental health, in 2000, her body of work out of print, her singular articulation of what, with specific intent, she called "the poetic novel" under-recognized and, until recently, forgotten.Briggs, Kate: - Kate Briggs grew up in Somerset, UK, and is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lectures and seminar notes: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. This Little Art, her genre-bending essay on the art of translation, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. In 2021, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her debut novel, The Long Form, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2023 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize the same year.