Publisher's Synopsis
Felix Feneon - anarchist, art maven, literary instigator - edited Rimbaud's Illuminations and was the first to publish James Joyce in French. He was also the author of 1,220 faits-divers that appeared over the course of 1906 in the Paris newspaper Le Matin . As stand-alone pieces, these concise, and often bizarre, three-line reports of death, naval exercises gone awry, petty theft and labor disputes are enigmatic fragments, but when viewed as a whole they form a mosaic of the era in France.
The New York Review of Books published Luc Sante's English translation of these items as Novels in Three Lines , inspiring artist Joanna Neborsky to create illustrations and collages that vivify a selection of the trenchant vignettes.
