Pierre Michon is one of France's most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules , Michon's work has never ceased to evade generic classifications. His work ingests books, lives and thought and probes their complex interrelationship and those moments of convergence that transform an ordinary name into that of an 'Author' or of an 'Artist'. The contents of Michon's work are well documented: they...