From Now, Now, Louison, a novel that will be published by Les Fugitives in the UK in September and by New Directions next March. Frémon is the president of Galerie Lelong in Paris and New York and has written novels, collections of poems, and essays on art. In this novel, he writes in the voice of artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), who was famous for her enormous sculptures of spiders. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen.
Out of frustration, you make sculpture. Destroying, repairing, mending, patching together, there’s love in all of it. You have to take control of…