Louis-Ren des For ts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry and fragmentary prose, and culminating in the key works Po mes de Samuel Wood (1987), Ostinato (1997) and the posthumously published Pas pas jusqu'au dernier (2001).
Ian Maclachlan's study is the first to take this innovation in life-writing as its principal focus and to draw out the wider resonances of des For ts's d.
Legenda Louis-rené des forêts and inner autobiography, hardcover/ian maclachlan
