{"product_id":"in-life-9781935835233","title":"In Life","description":"Fiction. Translated from the French by Andrew Colpitts. Your life consists of passing time, and time passes around you. Walls chip, and you paint them. Weeds flourish, and you pull them. Throughout IN LIFE Eug ne Savitzkaya sifts lyrically through our daily comings and goings, through decay and renovation. Pruning trees, scaling fish, washing windows, ironing and eating are among the myriad tasks surveyed in this book. Even urinating and defecating have their just place in the melee of the day-to-day. IN LIFE is a meditation on the quotidian, the circadian rhythms of life that sustain us and dissolve us. With piercing acuity Savitzkaya pays tribute to those actions that consume the lion's share of our waking hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColpitts, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andrew Colpitts, the translator, hails from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Theatre from Brown University. He is a translator, writer, and theatre-maker based in Paris, France.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSavitzkaya, Eugene:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eugène Savitzkaya is a French language poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist from Liège, Belgium. Born in Saint-Nicolas, Belgium, in 1955, he has written several books of poetry--including \u003cem\u003eLes couleurs de boucherie\u003c\/em\u003e (Bougois, 1980), \u003cem\u003eBufo bufo bufo\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1989) -- and many theater pieces. IN LIFE (En vie [Minuit, 1995]) is his first novel translated into English. His novels include \u003cem\u003eMentir\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1977), \u003cem\u003eLa disparition de maman\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1982), \u003cem\u003eLes morts sentent bon\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1984), \u003cem\u003eSang de chien\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1989), \u003cem\u003eMarin mon coeur\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 1992) and \u003cem\u003eExquise Louise\u003c\/em\u003e (Minuit, 2003). Other work translated into English include the prose poetry collection RULES OF SOLITUDE (Quale, 2004), which was the first of his books translated into English.","brand":"Quale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697984770322,"sku":"9781935835233","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad1e8057-ea90-4160-b683-0190fc8fddad.jpg?v=1734314235","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-life-9781935835233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}