[DeepL Translation - needs review] A Combat and Other Stories
brings together four texts of very different lengths but of the same high literary quality. They combine the taste for the unusual, the sense -sometimes bleeding, and always very subtle- of humor and the capacity for synthesis that characterize the author of
Perfume
. Through the story of a suicidal painter, a chess match in the Luxembourg garden, the first-person account of an eighteenth-century goldsmith in an atmosphere close ...
