Sydney Hansen


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1900—1999

I knew it seemed impossible to me to write in the traditional forms. They seemed to have no access to what we experienced. If we enclosed that in characters, personalities, a plot, we were overlooking everything that our senses were perceiving, which is what interested me. One had to take hold of the instant, by enlarging it, developing it. That’s what I tried to do in Tropisms.




  1. Tropismes
  2. Portrait d’un inconnu
  3. Martereau
  4. L'Ère du soupçon
  5. Le Planetarium
  6. Les Fruits d'or
  7. Le Silence
  8. Le Mensonge
  9. Entre la vie et la mort
  10. Isma, ou ce qui s’appelle rien
  11. Vous les entendez ?
  1. C’est beau
  2. «disent les imbéciles»
  3. Elle est là
  4. L’Usage de la parole
  5. Pour un oui ou pour un non
  6. Enfance
  7. Tu ne t’aimes pas
  8. Ici
  9. Ouvrez
  10. Lecture