Frontiers

Since his award-winning "new novel," Change of Heart (La Modification, 1957), Michel Butor has published over forty books; novels, poetry, essays on art and literature. "stereophonic" works, collaborations with artists and musicians as well as an opera libretto. In Frontiers he discusses his own works, theories of art, and in particular his travels around the world which have made him acutely aware of the frontiers we erect to segregate ourselves of the earth in an era of growing indifference to other peoples and nature itself. His dreams include nations divided not by barbed wire but frontiers of flowers where two neighboring states are seen "as a couple who dance, drawing their shadow and their flame on the walls of the cave Earth and conquering space in their embraces." From the frog of critical jargon which clouds contemporary French writing the work of Michel Butor shines as a beacon poetry.Butor, Michel is the author of 'Frontiers' with ISBN 9780917786679 and ISBN 091778667X.