“A book filled to the gills with a veritable feast of literary ingredients. To read Aseroë is to experience a kind of inebriation as we drink in the intelligence and the talent of its author.”
“Ranging from the mysterious mushroom known by the name of Aseroë to Giorgione’s painting The Tempest, while meditating on the millions made off the work of Rimbaud, [Aseroë] offers a series of astonishing and detailed variations on the theme of the figures of forgetfulness.”
Copyright
First published in the United States in 2020
by Bellevue Literary Press, New York
For information, contact:
Bellevue Literary Press
90 Broad Street
Suite 2100
New York, NY 10004
Aseroë was originally published in French in 1992 as Aséroé by POL éditeur
Text © 1992 by François Dominique
© POL éditeur
Translation © 2020 by Richard Sieburth and Howard Limoli
This is a work of fiction. Characters, organizations, events, and places (even those that are actual) are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dominique, François, 1943- author. | Sieburth, Richard, translator. | Limoli, Howard, translator.
Title: Aseroë / François Dominique ; translated by Richard Sieburth and Howard Limoli.
Other titles: Aséroé. English
Description: First edition. | New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2020. | Aseroë was originally published in French in 1992 as Aséroé by POL éditeur
Identifiers: LCCN 2020002388 (print) | LCCN 2020002389 (ebook) | ISBN 9781942658788 (paperback) | ISBN 9781942658795 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PQ3949.2.D57 A913 2021 (print) | LCC PQ3949.2.D57 (ebook) | DDC 843/.914--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002388
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002389
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a print, online, or broadcast review.
Bellevue Literary Press would like to thank all its generous donors—individuals and foundations—for their support.
This publication is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Book design and composition by Mulberry Tree Press, Inc.
Bellevue Literary Press is committed to ecological stewardship in our book production practices, working to reduce our impact on the natural environment.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
paperback ISBN: 978-1-942658-78-8
ebook ISBN: 978-1-942658-79-5