Bøker av Marcel Bénabou

Provides both a litany of writers' fears and a dismissal of the alibis offered to excuse them. The author aims to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company.

A story of the impossibility of love and the impossibility of writing of love, this work is a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one's story. At its center is the beautiful and ethereal Tamara, the incarnation of the narrator's enduring fantasy - a femme fatale for the lover of form.

Written by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, this book lets readers become party to the dilemma of 'challenging' literature in a singularly involving and amusing fashion. It presents an ironic perspective on the power of reading to produce meaning.