Riverwork Neoglyphic and the thrilling spontaneity of

and the thrilling spontaneity of youth―all of which is threatened the moment Joe

translation by Gregory Hays

Included are simple facts about the sense organs—eyes

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have been collected and preserved in a savage artificial jungle environment

Riverwork Neoglyphic and the thrilling spontaneity ofA lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris. Some ruins are invisible. Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bivre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history underher feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris's academic class. As she begins to study