Hecate and Her Dogs

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Admired both by Ezra Pound and by Marcel Proust as a pioneer craftsman of Modernist French prose (...) The sheer shapeliness of his prose recalls Hemingway; the urbanity of his selfdestructiveness compares with Fitzgerald's; and his camera eye is as lucidly stroboscopic as that of Dos Passos. He is, like Victor Segalen, Blaise Cendrars, Valery Larbaud, and Saint-John Perse, one of the great nomads of 20th-century French literature, racing through the apocalypse with the haste and glamor of an Orient Express. It is a pity we should have had to wait this long to catch up with him * The New York Times * Morand was a citizen of the world, with a sharp eye and a neat turn of phrase * The Tablet * Insight and brilliance -- Bob Corbett Without a doubt the best French writer of the 20th century -- Philippe Sollers Morand was the all-round aesthete -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian *