![]() ![]() Garréta vividly yet languidly names her intention to sketch a "memory-image" that allows the reader to place themselves in the moment. There began the tension at play here between mind, body, and memory. Garréta set out to write five hours per day for a month in order to "recount the memory you have of one woman or another whom you have desired or who has desired you." She required herself to use a computer rather than pen and paper. In this book, she transcends the conflict by insisting that desire can defy representation and undo form. If the experimental French writing group Oulipo were to be reborn today, would they return as performance artists? Anne Garréta's 2002 Prix Médicis–winning novel, Not One Day, marks her as a literary acrobat suspended between those who hold on to the group's relevance and those who have let it go in favor of conceptual art practices. Laura Poitras's Riskby Anya Jaremko-Greenwold ![]()
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