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Riverwork
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A Lost River, A Lost Aunt, A Found Literary Life: From The CultFavourite Poet And Author Of The Baudelaire Fractal Comes A Glittering And Erudite New Novel Of Paris.Some Ruins Are Invisible.Under The Pavements Of Paris There Lies Buried An Ancient River, The Bivre. For Years, Lucy Frost Has Walked Along These Streets, Unaware Of The Water And History Under Her Feet, On Her Way To Clean The Apartments Of ParisS Academic Class. As She Begins To Study And Transcribe The Inherited Notebooks And Papers Of Her GreatAunt, A Teacher And Researcher Who Disappeared Years Earlier, She Commits To Continuing Her AuntS Youthful Research On The Bivre, Mining The RiverS Documentary Traces In The Works Of Rousseau, Rabelais, Hugo, Chateaubriand, And The Like. She Uncovers A History Of Industry: Paper Mills, Dyeing Workshops, Tanneries, And Textile Manufacturers And Laundries.She Finds Resonances Of Her Own Labour In The History Of The RiverS Laundresses. On Stolen Time At Work, And In Her Insomniac Hours Of Nightwriting, She Fills Notebooks With These Woven Stories And Descriptions Of Obsolete Sites, Textiles, Cosmologies, And Voices, Constructing Her Own Forms Of Relation With The Lost.Riverwork Unearths Not Just An Urban River But Also A Philosophy Of Research And The Archive, A Politics Of Hydrology, An Ontology Of Ageing And Belatedness, And A Consideration Of The Unrepresented Labour Of Women, Past And Present. Along The Way It Brings To Life, In Pyrotechnic Prose, A LongGone Paris And Both Its Domestic Workers And Its Writers.
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