The Baudelaire Fractal

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By Lisa Robertson

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In The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson, the protagonist wakes up one morning in a hotel room to discover she has somehow composed the complete works of Baudelaire. This sets her on a journey through memories of her youth, art, and the power of literature, all while exploring themes of identity, feminism, and the layering of past and present. The novel intriguingly blends autobiography and fiction to challenge the boundaries of the self and authorship.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate a blend of poetic language and philosophical musings. It explores identity and art with a lyrical narrative that might captivate those fascinated by both the beauty of words and the intricacies of self-discovery.

The Baudelaire Fractal

Part memoir, part magical realism, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet's life, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the incomparable Lisa Robertson.

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One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be, it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is.

Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit, she shuttles between London, Vancouver, Paris, and the French countryside, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present, from rented room to rented room, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity, poverty, and the perfect jacket...

Part memoir, part magical realism, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet's life, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the incomparable Lisa Robertson.

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The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson is praised for its innovative and erudite narrative, blending fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. Reviewers highlight its complexity, philosophical exploration of gender, and unconventional storytelling, describing it as a distinctive and captivating read. The novel challenges traditional literary structures, offering a meditative and often abstract journey that invokes reflections on literary and artistic authority.

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ISBN: 9781552453902

Publisher: Coach House Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 March 2020

Country: Canada

Imprint: Coach House Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. She has published nine books of poetry, most recently Boat (2022), and two books of essays, Nilling (2012) and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003). Her 2021 book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam), an annotated translation of Weil's 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of wide rime, her ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, U East Anglia, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Piet Zwart Institute, Simon Fraser University, American University of Paris, Naropa, and California College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018 the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish, and Turkish translations. A second novel, Riverwork, is forthcoming from Coach House Books.