Otherwise I Forget: A Novel by Clmentine Mlois [Paperback]

Otherwise I Forgetis is a delightful panoramic view of contemporary France. A selection of 'found' shopping lists spawns imagined insights into the lives and minds of their authors. The first of her works to be translated into English, this is a wonderful introduction to this highly original writer's work.Cl?mentine M?lois is a writer, artist, and member of Oulipo. Her first published work,Cent titres(2014), is a cult classic. She has gone on to subvert children's literature and - more recently - the photo-story genre.

Sinon j'oublie(2017) -Otherwise I Forget- is a unique work embroidered around a selection of her collection of 'found' shopping lists. After a short foreword - exposing her interest in this universal but throw-away form of writing - we find images of 100 shopping lists accompanied by her imagined insight into the lives and minds of their authors. The result is a delightful panoramic view of contemporary France in the guise of an (autobiographical) novel.

This is the first of her works to be translated for an Anglophone readership. More accessible than other of her works, universal in appeal, and full of humanity,Otherwise I Forgetis a wonderful and deceptively simple introduction to the work of this highly original writer and artist.Otherwise I Forgetis is a delightful panoramic view of contemporary France. A selection of 'found' shopping lists spawns imagined insights into the lives and minds of their authors. The first of her works to be translated into English, this is a wonderful introduction to this highly original writer's work.Terry J. Bradford teaches in the French Department and with the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds.