{"product_id":"lili-is-crying-9780811239660","title":"Lili Is Crying","description":"\u003cem\u003eLili Is Crying\u003c\/em\u003e, H�l?ne Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love--of desire run cold--and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, \u003cem\u003eLili Is Crying\u003c\/em\u003e transformed Bessette into a cult author in France. Moving and maddening in turns, the characters are so trapped in their own cruelty and sorrows, but in its spareness it feels true: \"Show me a woman who has actually chosen something.\" Championed by Raymond Queneau, then an editor at Gallimard, Bessette's novels were hailed for their experimentation, unusual economy of expression, rarity, strange humor, and their sheer vivacity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBessette, H�l?ne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eH�l?ne Bessette\u003c\/strong\u003e (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Prix Cazes in 1954, and was twice in the running for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix M�dicis. In 1956, Bessette co-founded with her son Le Gang du roman po�tique (G.R.P): \"The Gang of the Poetic Novel,\" an intergenerational literary movement of two. After her editor Raymond Queneau's death in 1976, her publisher ceased to support her. She died in poverty, in poor mental health, in 2000, her body of work out of print, her singular articulation of what, with specific intent, she called \"the poetic novel\" under-recognized and, until recently, forgotten.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBriggs, Kate:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKate Briggs\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Somerset, UK, and is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lectures and seminar notes: \u003cem\u003eThe Preparation of the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow to Live Together\u003c\/em\u003e, both published by Columbia University Press. \u003cem\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e, her genre-bending essay on the art of translation, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. In 2021, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Form\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2023 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize the same year.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319375462674,"sku":"9780811239660","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4374eb6a-79f7-4072-810b-1d6506faabc3.jpg?v=1748531703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lili-is-crying-9780811239660","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}