Jul 3, 2014
On today's show, I talk to husband and wife writers Harry
Mathews and Marie Chaix. Harry Mathews is a writer and poet
originally from New York. After a tour in the Navy in 1949, he
eloped with a French artist and eventually moved to Europe. There
he co-founded the influential literary journal Locus Solus
and became the first American member of theFrench writing group
OULIPO. Harry is the author of numerous novels including
Tlooth, The Conversions and My Life in
CIA, and he is also a translator of many people, including his
wife Marie Chaix's novels. Marie was born in 1942 in France in the
midst of WWII. After her father died, she found out he had been a
Nazi collaborator during the war, and his diaries inspired her
first book The Laurels of Lake Constance in 1974, and
since then, she has penned eight other books. Much of Harry and
Marie's work can be found through the Dalkey Archive, one of the best
publishers of contemporary fiction.
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