From the Publisher
Praise for Jules Renard and Poil de Carotte
“Renard is at the origin of contemporary literature.”—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Poil de Carotte's continuing power comes from its rejection of fiction’s sentimental myths about childhood: Renard wrote elsewhere that a child is a ‘small, necessary animal, less human than a cat.'”—Julian Barnes
“A small masterpiece.”—Gore Vidal
“A novel as cold and brilliant as ice.”–Gilbert Sorrentino
“Renard is a necessary, irreplaceable nourishment . . . [His] prose is faultless, perfectly embodying Baudelaire’s ideal of la litterature severe et soignee. I have never found a sentence of his which I could budge. Every word, every rhythm is absolutely, joyously right.”—The New York Times
