Why I have not written any of my books =
Subtitle: Pourquoi je n'ai écrit aucun de mes livres
By: Marcel Bénabou ; translated by David Kornacker.
Contributors: Kornacker, David, 1964-
Series: French modernist library
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Other titles: Pourquoi je n'ai écrit aucun de mes livres
Description: Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has had plenty of company. But the frustrations and pleasures can still be felt privately. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full one accuses. Benabou knows the heroic joy of depriving critics of victims, the kindness of sparing publishers decisions, and the public charity of leaving more room in bookstore displays.

At once the budding of an author and the withering of the authoritative, Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books polishes the varnish of self-conscious writing until it peels away. It provides both a respectful litany of writers' fears and a dismissal of the alibis offered to excuse them.