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“After three weeks, we had a rough manuscript, which Jean happily brought back to Jérôme Lindon to publish.”
““Of that first meeting, I’ve retained a memory at once vague and precise,” Echenoz writes, and I could say the same.”
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“______________________________ Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, is available from Archipelago Books.”
“The fact that Jérôme Lindon received me at all had less to do with my personal standing in the publishing industry—a fledgling editor at Random House, I had none—than with the fact that I’d been graciously provided an introduction by a formidable literary agent, a friend of a friend of the family.”
“As Echenoz says in his memoir, regarding the poor performance of his own first book, sales were “beside the point: I have a publisher and it’s Jérôme Lindon.”
“I devoured the novel in one go, communicated my enthusiasm to Galassi, and the two of us went to pitch it to Jason Epstein, at the time the imprint’s editor in chief.”
“Having been invited to join his team, we were tasked with writing a piece of fiction over the residency’s three-week duration, between afternoons on the beach, nights at the local bar (The Breakers), outings to nearby sights (including a shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral), and work on our own projects.”
“None of that mattered to me: this was my first published book, and it bore the Minuit imprint.”
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“It was around the same time that another Minuit title, Cherokee by a certain Jean Echenoz, was handed to me to read by Jonathan Galassi, who back then was Random House’s editor of such unsalable genres as poetry and translations, and poetry in translation.”
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“The Lover went to number 9 on the New York Times bestseller list, cementing Duras’s reputation in the Anglophone world and leaving me with a prestigious regret for my CV.”
“His previous books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto , as well as many translations from the French.”
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“Echenoz sketches a lively and personal view of the bonds and minor psychoses that can occur when two people work in tandem, and sometimes in conflict.”
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“I dutifully took the novel home to New York and endeavored to acquire the rights, but the powers-that-were at Random House deemed Duras a specialty item, fit for a Grove Press-type audience, and not a good investment of their mega-dollars.”