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Review of Louis Armand’s Clair Obscur by Barbara Bridger, originally published in the Warwick Review, Vol.6 No.1 Mar 2012. Clair Obscur is written from Louis Armand’s screen play, given honourable mention at the 2009 Alpe Adria Trieste International Film Festival. Its opening (‘Overture’) merges the sound of an electric typewriter with that of celluloid feeding through … Continue reading →

Silences Around Things

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Review of Louis Armand’s Canicule (London: Equus, 2013), “Vanishing,” by Richard Marshall, originally published in 3:AM Magazine, Friday, June 21st, 2013. By the late eighties the problem of how to write serious meditational fiction without being a counterfeit, avoiding the triple death of Neiman-Marcus nihilism, Catatonic realism and Workshop hermeticism was pressing. It remains as ever … Continue reading →

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