Winter Mythologies and Abbots

“Michon demonstrates the independence of voice that marks a true writer. . . . His supple prose, dappled with chiaroscuro effects, is used in straightforward chronicles. But his writing can at any time lift or lower into semi-hallucinatory effects that recall Arthur Rimbaud’s assaults on conventional perception.”—Roger Shattuck, New York Review of Books

“Excellent news on the Michon translation front: an exceptional translator has, at last, appeared. . . . There is the velocity, the precision, the music, the compression, the singularity, the power. . . . [Michon’s] vision . . . appears with all its French force in Ann Jefferson’s exceptional transplantation.”—Wyatt Mason, New York Review of Books

“Michon is one of the best-kept secrets of modern French prose.”—Publishers Weekly

“[Michon’s] books are (or contain, as with the collections Winter Mythologies and Abbots or Masters and Servants) compelling stories composed in a distinctive style.”—John Taylor, Arts Fuse

Longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award, fiction category, organized by Three Percent, a resource for international literature based at the University of Rochester

Selected as a finalist of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize

“[Michon] has become a member of that family known as the authors I admire, I trust, I want to read.”—Richard Howard

“An astonishingly rich, mythic new direction in modern French narrative.”—Guy Davenport