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Poems by Patrick Modiano. Illustrated by Dominique Zehrfuss. Translated with an introduction by Damion Searls Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel-prize winning author Patrick Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Dominique Zehrfuss. 28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couples creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful dream. There are twenty-eight dreams in this book, or perhaps one dream in twenty-eight partsvisions of paradise imagined by Zehrfuss during a time of deep sadness. Captured first in Zehrfusss brightly colored gouaches, each paradise was then refashioned as a poem by Modiano. Zehrfusss paintings are Edens in miniature, and rather than describe them outright, Modiano dreams himself into these reveries in quiet, understated verse. The reader enters this shared realm in an experience less like paging through a book and more like slipping into a shared world. These paradises are wishes for mo

Author

Patrick Modiano, Dominique Zehrfuss, Damion Searls

Publisher

Zwirner Books, David; David Zwirner Books

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644230022

Subjects

Romance, Art, Arts