BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW

Small Lives by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays. Archipelago, 215 pp., $15.00 (paper)

Rimbaud the Son by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays. Yale University Press, 96 pp., $15.00 (paper)

The Eleven by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays. Archipelago, 97 pp., $18.00 (paper)

Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon, translated from the French, illustrated, and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason. Yale University Press, 192 pp., $15.00 (paper)

The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon, translated from the French and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason, afterword by Roger Shattuck. Yale University Press, 92 pp., $13.00 (paper)

Winter Mythologies and Abbots by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Ann Jefferson. Yale University Press, 116 pp., $13.00 (paper)