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| Title Statement | Lili is crying / Hélène Bessette ; translated by Kate Briggs ; with an afterword by Eimear McBride. |
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| Author | Bessette, Hélène |
| Additional Contributors | Bessette, Hélène |
| Briggs, Kate | |
| McBride, Eimear | |
| Publication | New York: New Directions Publishing,2025. |
| Extent of Item | 183 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780811239660 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07910964 |
| General Notes | Translation of: Lili pleure. "A New Directions paperbook original." |
| Summary | "Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness anddepth 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 catapulted Bessette into cult status in France. The novel is moving and maddening in turns -- the characters trapped in their own cruelty and sorrows -- but in its spareness it feels true: "Show me a woman who has actually chosen something." Championed by Raymond Queneau, then an editor at Gallimard, Bessette's novels were hailed for their experimentation, unusual economy of expression, rarity, strange humor, and their sheer vivacity"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Families--Fiction |
| Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Domestic fiction |
| Psychological fiction | |
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