· Bookforum. Like her previous books, [Robertson's] latest is a work of buoyant loveliness and muscular erudition, a lush thicket of thoughts that here enrich the ease and breeziness of personal narrative with the chewier textures of history, criticism, and literary theory Robertson’s writing folds, continuously, crossing timelines so now and then stand face to face.3/4(3). · Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal. In a late essay on Machado de Assis’ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (), Susan Sontag sketches a tradition of digressive, loquacious prose fiction running from Laurence Sterne to Samuel Beckett—a way of writing in which we repeatedly meet “in different guises the chatty, meandering, compulsively speculative, eccentric narrator: Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · Hazel Brown, the protagonist of Lisa Robertson’s first novel The Baudelaire Fractal, occupies herself with trying to ‘loosen the structures that govern existence’. By circulating in the ‘nervous fluid of a city’, inhabiting anonymous hotel rooms and rented flats, Hazel hopes to ‘become a style of enunciation, a strategic misunderstanding, a linguistic funnel, a wedge in language’.
L ike a child watching a magic show, one opens a new book by Lisa Robertson with the delicious anticipation of being pleasantly deceived. So the news that the poet and essayist had published her first novel filled me with furtive excitement. The Baudelaire Fractal would be a novel, I figured, in the same way that Robertson's poetry book, The Weather, was about weather: elliptically. by Lisa Robertson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 21, An itinerant poet makes an autofiction of her wayward wandering youth in this debut novel. One morning in the spring of , the poet Hazel Brown awakens in a Vancouver hotel to discover that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson's first novel.
Hazel Brown, the protagonist of Lisa Robertson’s first novel The Baudelaire Fractal, occupies herself with trying to ‘loosen the structures that govern existence’. By circulating in the ‘nervous fluid of a city’, inhabiting anonymous hotel rooms and rented flats, Hazel hopes to ‘become a style of enunciation, a strategic misunderstanding, a linguistic funnel, a wedge in language’. The Baudelaire Fractal is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Prize for fiction. Canadian Lisa Robertson wins $40K poetry prize from New York's Foundation For Contemporary Arts. The Baudelaire Fractal is more than a literal and linear exploration of authorship—in fact, the novel is in keeping with and a continuation of Robertson’s desire to “veer [ ] away from the ‘book as a unit of composition,’” as Klara du Plessis points out in her recent chapbook, Unfurl.
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