Letters Numbers Forms Essays, 1928-70

"[A] groundbreaking portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential French writers."--H-France

"Jordan Stump has done anglophone readers a great service in providing this well-chosen, thoughtfully translated collection."Times Literary Supplement

"A deeply compelling narrative of an encyclopedic, infinitely inquisitive, rigorous mind at work, right in the thick of things, over a period of four decades. . . . The translations are luminous ones, rigorously faithful to both the letter and the spirit of the original. . . . This is an important book, one that is long overdue, a book that will be welcomed by serious readers of any stripe, whether amateur or professional."--Review of Contemporary Fiction