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FOUR NOVELS BY MARIE REDONNET:
HOTEL SPLENDID. 1986 Trans. Jordan Stump. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ix + 113 pages. $10 paper.
FOREVER VALLEY, WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIE REDONNET. 1986. Trans. Jordan Stump. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. 113 pages. $ 10 paper.
ROSE MELLIE ROSE, WITH 'THE STORY OF THE TRIPTYCH." 1987. Trans. Jordan Stump. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. 120 pages. $10 paper.
CANDY STORY. 1992. Trans. by Alexandra Quinn. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. 99 pages. $ 10 paper.
The University of Nebraska Press has undertaken to publish-and thereby to champion-the fiction of the 48-year-old French feminist writer, Marie Redonnet. The first three novels listed above constitute, in the author's word, a triptych. "The anamnesis of a lost history, [it] is also a progressive openingup to the historical present." The fourth book is a dream/satire/allegory peopled by literary figures, and seems to fall somewhere between Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and T. C. Boyle's East is East.
Hotel Splendid possesses...