Each year, the International Forum on the Novel in Lyon, France, invites authors to write about a “keyword” of their choice. The following texts are drawn from this year’s forum, presented by the ...
Noémi Lefebvre
After two virtuoso books revisiting the art of interior monologue, Noémi Lefebvre published L’Enfance politique (2015; A Political Childhood). A highly political novel with a grand burlesque vitality and a sharp style, it follows a 40-something narrator who takes refuge with her mother after a new disaster in her chaotic existence. Moving between domestic and historical follies, this brilliantly constructed novel charts the oppressive closeness of a mother and daughter. 