Complete Fiction

Fiction. Poetry. Translation. An important French poet and art critic born in 1939, Fauchereau has been Professor of American literature at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). A prolific author, Fauchereau has written numerous monographs on 20th-century art and artists, studying artists such as Fernand Leger and Georges Braque. COMPLETE FICTION is composed of a series of often-elegant vignettes and reminiscences, fractured with great care and subtlety, all ably translated from the French by Ron Padgett and John Ashbery.