Miroirs

by Marcel Cohen

Born in the Paris suburb of Asnieres in 1939, Marcel Cohen lives in Paris where he makes his living, under a pseudonym, as a widely read journalist. In his own work, which includes poems, short stories and novels, he has concerned himself with honing his narrative line to the bare essentials, where a sequence of gestures, a brief dialogue, the revelation of a detail can attain their full implications and nuance, building into a sort of intimate drama that resonates with the concision of poetry." "These texts tell of persecution, suffocation, and freedom in settings that range across his personal Paris under the occupation, Auschwitz, the Sinai desert, Benares, Kabul, New York, but also anonymous hotel rooms, his childhood home, lost roads in the country. In understated tones and with a poetic instinct for details, Mirrors offers a portrait of a man coming to terms with the times in which we live.

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Marcel Cohen nasceu em 1937, em Asnières-sur-Seine, nos arredores de Paris. Filho de judeus turcos, perdeu boa parte da família durante o Holocausto. Jornalista de formação, trabalhou em várias partes do mundo para a imprensa francesa. Seu primeiro livro, o romance Galpa, foi lançado em 1969, seguido de títulos como Murs (1979), Miroirs (1980), Le Grand Paon-de-nuit (1990) e Assassinat d'un garde (1998). Em 2002, deu início à trilogia Faits (2002‑2010), de prosa brevíssima, quase aforística. Em 2013, publicou este Sur la scène intérieure, vencedor do prêmio Wepler. No mesmo ano, recebeu também o prêmio Jean Arp pelo conjunto de sua obra. Vive em Paris.