當代法國與美國作家聯手創作的精采故事集。創作的法則是每篇皆是法美配對，ㄧ位法國作家先寫下小說的前半部，再由另ㄧ位美國作家完成。參與的作家有Marie Darrieussecq(《小姐變成豬》作者)與Rick Moody(《冰風暴》作者)等人。
"Rick Moody's dark with and unflinching eye for the bathetic render him a particularly appropriate seer for contemporary alienation, and the inevitable--not wholly unjust--comparisons have been made: to Updike, to Cheever, and, more accurately, to Amis fils." --Village Voice
"Marie Darrieussecq is one of the freshest, quirkiest and most radical voices in contemporary French fiction." --Independent
"Roubaud seduces with felicitous--and feline--humor . . . evoking the spirits of his countryman Rabelais, of Flann O'Brien, Jorge Luis Borges, Gilbert Sorrentino, Julio Cortazar, Umberto Eco, Tom Robbins." --Los Angeles Times
內容簡介
What would happen if seven of France's best contemporary writers wrote stories that were then sent to seven equally talented Americans, who responded with stories of their own? The answer is As You Were Saying, a collection of short fiction that pairs contributors such as: JACQUES ROUBAUD / RAYMOND FEDERMAN LYDIE SALVAYRE / RIKKI DUCORNET GREGOIRE BOUILLIER / PERCIVAL EVERETT MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ / RICK MOODY PHILIPPE CLAUDEL / ALEKSANDAR HEMON CAMILLE LAURENS / ROBERT OLEN BUTLER LUC LANG / JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
作者簡介
This collection includes stories by some of the most important contemporary French and American writers, including these pairings: Marie Darrieussecq and Rick Moody; Lydie Salvayre and Rikki Ducornet; Gregoire Bouillier and Benjamin Kunkel; Jacques Roubaud and Raymond Federman; Jean Hatzfeld and Philip Gourevitch; Philippe Claudel and Aleksandar Hemon; Luc Land and John Edgar Wideman; and Camille Laurens and Robert Olen Butler.
