Chris Marker: The Forthright Spirit (1949/1951)

Chris Marker‘s debut novel.

“His friend Alain Resnais recalls that Marker favored a 1951 English translation of his prizewinning (Prix Orion, 1950) novel [..] because it had so little resemblance to the original.” (source)

Originally published in French as Le cœur net, Le Seuil, Paris, 1949.

Translated by Robert Kee and Terence Kilmartin
Publisher Allan Wingate, London, 1951
191 pages

Review: Roger Tailleur (Rouge, 1963/2007)
Commentary: Edward Gauvin (2012).

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