Une Impossibilité

translated by Christophe Marchand-Kiss

published by Actes Sud in 2005

to purchase: www.fnac.fr

 

A high-level literary exercise, brilliantly executed.
Chronic’Art

Stranger to the world as he is to himself, [The Impossibly’s narrator] wanders in a crepuscular universe, and, as if speaking with a voice from beyond the grave, unveils, little by little, a mystery that imbricates reality – the possible – and absurdity – the impossible. One lets oneself be swept away by this tale…From a novelist whose style and talent are highly individual, this is an unsettling work, one to explore…
Le Monde

Nothing. At any rate, nothing known. That’s what Laird Hunt’s debut novel resembles…One leaves The Impossibly with a head full of the bizarre and a nose full of complexity, almost like when one turns the last page of a Musil or a Kafka.
Technikart

Excellent…
Le Magazine Littéraire

Laird Hunt’s The Impossibly…seizes you, sweeps you away, astonishes you…and amazes you… Uncategorizable… Magnificent, impossible to summarize… New, never seen, never read…
Le Littéraire.com