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'John A. Scott's Shorter Lives is written at an intersection between experimental fiction, biography, and poetry. It inherits aspects of earlier works, such as preoccupations with sex and France. As the title indicates, it narrates mini-biographies of famous writers — Arthur Rimbaud, Virginia Stephen (Woolf), Andre Breton, and Mina Loy — and one painter — Pablo Picasso —with interludes devoted to the lesser-known poet Charles Cros and the art dealer Ambroise Vollard. The narratives are largely distilled from more conventional prose sources. Scott gives himself poetic licence to fictionalise, and anachronise: Paul Cezanne's collection of twentieth-century American paintings, for example.' (Introduction)
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