"We never hear all thevoices in the same history at the same time." He feels he is someone standing on a raftdriftingaway fromshore and at the same time someone watching the raftdriftoff. The nar rator of Kossi Efoui's third novel, who returns tohis childhood home, is, like a ghost, caught in a web of remembering and forgetting in which the present and the past are linked indirectly, inconclusively. isbn978 2-02-097193-5 A revenant means someone who returns, but also a ghost. Warren Motte UniversityofColorado Kossi Efoui. He has been playing at thevery top of his game fornearly thirty years now, since the publica tion of LeMeridien de Greenwich in 1979, and at times that must seem like a very long and exhausting race indeed. It strikes me that thevery insistence of this motif in Echenoz's recent work is eloquent. Though his calling isquite different, Echenoz insists thatEmile is likewise an artist, one whose performance follows an ineluctable trajectory. In Au piano (2003), Echenoz gave us a fictional concert pianist who is afflictedby stage fright inRavel,we met a real musician who grapples with his own renown in the last ten years ofhis life,realizing thathe can no longerplay music as he once did. H > H z I H < I o I o I Throughout Courir, the ques tion of performance is constantly at issue?and the same is true of the two books thatpreceded it. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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