{"product_id":"9780811226110","title":"Story of Love in Solitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA notable discovery of a truly original voice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeveral stories inhabit Roger Lewinter’s first small book to appear in English, \u003cem\u003eStory of Love in Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e. Each story takes the form of a loop: a spider who won’t stop returning; camellias that flourish and then die; dying parents whose presence is always yet felt; turning again and again to work on Rilke translations; a younger man whom the narrator sees each week at the Geneva street markets. All the tales touch on the possibility, the open possibility of love—a loop without end.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLewinter’s short fictional works are at once prose poems and a form of dreaming; they are akin to the great French tradition of things sparking emotions and emotions sparking things—part Sarraute, part Robbe-Grillet, part Perec. Plot is not really the point of his meditative works. Lewinter concerns himself more with perception, apperception, and sudden inflections of grace: loss and beauty meet in an explosion of joy, which becomes, “in its brilliance, a means of transmittal.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118600831216,"sku":"9780811226110","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811226110_p0.jpg?v=1763739768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811226110","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}