Suite for Barbara Loden - Softcover

Léger, Nathalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997366605 ISBN 13: 9780997366600

Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project, 2016

Synopsis

The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists.

“I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”—the seeming collapse of fiction and fact—that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.

About this title

About the Author

Nathalie Léger is the award-winning author of Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress, as well as an editor and archivist. She has curated exhibitions on Roland Barthes and Samuel Beckett for the Centre Pompidou, and is Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, an organization dedicated to preserving the archives of modern French writers.

Natasha Lehrer is an award-winning writer and literary translator. She has written features and book reviews for a variety of newspapers, including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Observer.

Cécile Menon is a translator between French and English and the founder of the London-based publisher Les Fugitives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997366605
• ISBN 13: 9780997366600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128