The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova This collection illuminates the uniquely

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace

behind shuttered windows and on factory floors

Yet in that harsh

First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century

an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendour and squalor

The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova This collection illuminates the uniquelyThe writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The